AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for federated file sharing and replicated r
ZFS is a new kind of filesystem developed by Sun Microsystems that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. Now thanks to the magic of Open Solaris, we have ported ZFS to the Mac OS X pla
FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-attached storage) server, supporting: CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID (0,1,5), with a web-based configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32 MB on