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Wow, AMD seems to not be in the best of times lately.

No problem. I think you are going to have a lot of fun putting this together. Good luck!

It is my understanding that you will get better mileage and reliability with Intel based systems compared to AMD. There are numerous forums about this but I think its described simply on iXsystems' website: "FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD. FreeBSD has a long history of working better on Intel...

Quite a nice video! George Neville-Neil seems to be quite a guy. It did answer a lot of questions that had. FreeBSD is pretty awesome.

A question that has had be quite interested for some time, but one that I could never truly find a satisfactory answer for, was why has FreeBSD been so successful in its proliferation compared to the other BSDs? I know that OpenBSD code has managed to to get in some pretty important corners of...

I am not sure but I think this is the video that might be being referred to: NYCBSDCon 2014: Serving one-third of the Internet via FreeBSD I found it pretty interesting that they actually aren't making use of ZFS, but instead relying on UFS and higher level redundancy via multiple nodes.

Why not just try PC-BSD? It provides all these bells and whistles and is aimed, from the start, as a desktop/workstation OS.

That is a more elegant option, thanks!

Well this seems to work well: tar -cvf folder.tar folder; xz -9 folder.tar Also with parallel xz: tar -cvf folder.tar folder; pixz -9 folder.tar

The following command XZ_OPT=-9 tar -cvJf folder.tar.xz folder Does not directly work on FreeBSD to compress a folder unless one is using a bash shell. Is there an equivalent way to compress a folder of files while also being able to set the compression level without piping output between...

The FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD communities are very open with regard to users wishing to help improve their documentation. In the case of DragonflyBSD's pages, anyone can edit them, you don't even need permission. Just open an account on their page (which is a wiki) and start editing. This IMO is...

Thanks! I think I'll snip this one from you and give it a go. Additional features are nice too!

Thanks usdmatt, this is what I was seeking, although I was hoping for just a one line command that could be added to a cron instead of the creation of a script and then calling it thereafter. But this could work nicely. I'll give it a try.

I am running a couple of FreeBSD systems using UFS and am interested in learning whether it is possible to print the results of a tar operation to a text file? Ultimately what I am trying to do is create an ad-hoc file system integrity checking system. This would be done by creating cron jobs...

The last time I checked there were no fewer than 26 companies that have built OpenZFS into their core products, including the wonderful folks over at iXsystems http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Companies I am not knocking the above post, because it is a valid point, but have all of these companies not...

I too would be very interested in an elaboration on this. The only thing I've found concerned the Oracle NetApp patent lawsuit that was dismissed http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/NetApp-Oracle-Settle-Old-Patent-Litigation-Over-ZFS-121130

ZFS gains more support, that is a good thing! I wonder though why do some prominent names, notably Henning Brauer of OpenBSD in some of his latest talks, continues to say that the license is going to come and bite? His position is that it is a risk to use ZFS. Are there any real merits to this...

Just as an anecdote, I recently fired up DragonflyBSD 4.2 on a Thinkpad X230. It is one blazing fast OS if you find OpenBSD isn't suitable for your needs. Both work very well on this particular model Thinkpad. OpenBSD has the advantage that it reliably suspends/resumes if you need it to.