[geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Alois Hammer wrote:
toying with the idea of OpenSolaris or Nexenta or something,
> but a) Linux and BSD are both considerably more performant, especially
> for filesystems (clearly an important consideration for a NAS device)
> and b) using anything other than Sun Solaris 10 x86 isn't going to get
> me that tasty Solaris experience to go on my resume.  And, honestly?  I
> can't stand Sun Solaris.  The userland tools are terrible, and getting
> good GNU tools on seems to be an exercise in hair-pulling, cursing, and
> wondering why stuff doesn't get updated for months or longer.  (Or has
> someone produced an alternative to SunFreeware?)

Yes, Blastwave.  And I would think that ZFS kicks any of the Linux or 
BSD based filesystems on the features you want.

--Patrick