Ongoing maintenance and monitoring can also be achieved from the command line or with the tools that you already have in place for maintaining your other FreeBSD systems. In practical terms, NAS configuration is mostly a one-time thing that is easy enough to perform from the command line. While some vendors offer customized hardware builds, if you already know what you want for hardware, you can build it yourself without adding the cost of a middleman to build it for you.Ĭonfiguring a NAS on top of your own FreeBSD installation also means that you don’t have the overhead of running a GUI, or learning where to perform the various configuration options from that GUI. Pre-built NAS solutions will only offer a small selection of hardware choices which may or may not meet your needs. Given that several FreeBSD-based NAS distributions are readily available, ranging from completely open source to pre-built with customer support plans, the question naturally arises: “why not just use a FreeBSD-based NAS distro rather than building your own”? After all, someone else has done the work to tune FreeBSD and most solutions provide a nice GUI for configuring the various NAS options. In this article we take a closer look at the operating system and the configurations, both during and after installation, to fine-tune the system for OpenZFS storage. We’re taking a build-up approach, where we first walk you through the hardware steps, and now we’re bringing up the next layer in our step-up – setting up your FreeBSD operating system.
In the first article in this series, we concentrated on selecting suitable hardware for your FreeBSD and OpenZFS-based NAS.
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