hans...@gmail.com wrote on 01/10/2012 08:00:45 PM:
> I highly recommend OpenFiler. The code itself is open-source, but
> t's not very diligently supported by the community. However I was a
> total newbie to the world of Linux and have never needed any - it's
> been solid as a rock, and has every possible NAS feature readily
> available from web-driven GUI, obviously designed for the high-end
> corporate sector.
It has been a solid performer: I've been using 2.3 for quite a while now.
But there are a *lot* of questions moving forward: enough that I don't
want to base a new solution on top of it.
Both the top-level project (OpenFiler) and the framework it's built on
(rPath) are having visible problems.
> I would recommend running BPC in a VM so as to disturb OF's
> "appliance" nature as little as possible.
I'm a *huge* fan of VM, but there are times where you don't want the
complexity, and get near-zero benefit from it. This is one of them. Think
"appliance", not "server". This is a device for managing lots of
*storage*. ESXi makes that much harder, not easier.
Tim Massey
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