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With respect, Backblaze can’t be used as a NFS server replacement. It’s fine if you want to use them for storing backups with their proprietary protocol, or us
by bradknowles 9y ago
With respect, Backblaze can’t be used as a NFS server replacement.
It’s fine if you want to use them for storing backups with their proprietary protocol, or use S3-style bucket storage on their B3 service, but that is totally not the same thing.
- nailer 9y agoIt's principally a hardware design. You can use it with whatever software you like.
- bradknowles 9y agoTake a close look at that hardware design — it is very much intended to be used exclusively for the purpose it was designed for, with their proprietary HTTP application on top. They are tightly coupled — it is very hard to separate the hardware design from the software that would be running on it. If you were to design a more generally useful storage server, it would look a lot more like the FreeNAS or TrueNAS boxes than it would the Backblaze boxes.