-=> Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 Ar> When I was looking into building a home NAS I started
 Ar> researching FreeNAS builds. I think FreeNAS would be worth
 Ar> it if just
 Ar> because they use ZFS as a filesystem/drive-array controller
 Ar> natively instead of Linux bolted-on solution. Not that I
 Ar> think a
 Ar> Linux solution won't work.

OMV, in the way I'm using it, isn't "bolted on"; it's integrated into
the OS itself.  There is a version of OMV that runs on top of an
existing Debian install, however.

 Ar> I finally settled for OpenBSD storage. OpenBSD is far from
 Ar> great for pure storage, but I am running a ton of services
 Ar> from that
 Ar> computer anyway in addition to file storage, so...

The only reason I don't use *BSD directly is that I don't want to have
to relearn the intricacies of another operating system.  I am familiar
with Debian and how it works so that's why I was interested in OMV.  

I will say that pfSense is an excellent setup and I have used it before
professionally and personally.

Later,
Sean

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