[darkpuppet]

ok.. I lied... Ubuntu is not the way to go.

The problem being (as with anything linux it seems), there's no such thing as plug and play. You plug, you play, you pray, you cry, you bash your head against the wall, download gigs of crap, compile and try, wait, and pray some more... but if you have an intermittent problem, it's likely to stay intermittent.

So I went back to freenas... 12 hours to set up ubuntu and track down all the process/memory leaks (what kind of OS just shuts down apps to free up process handles without telling you??!)

The latest version of freenas 0.7 is a lot more stable -- and I figured out a way to install some extra packages on it's freeBSD install -- and even got SVN running on it.

The only problem being that you can't do a lot of package updates and installs since it doesn't have a compiler on it.

So I tried my best to install SVN with the Apache svn-dav module, but that just wasn't going to happen (gmake doesn't work with Makefile? wtf?) ...

So I guess freenas still wins in the end for ease of use , if not for maintainability.

I even got around to configuring the bit torrent server on it to get me some full episodes of Top Gear instead of the hacked crap they throw on BBC Can.

And even through swapping between OSes, hardware, etc... the zfs RAID still comes up unfazed through it all. That's the sort of stuff you don't hear of in the ext-LVM world.