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Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 2:08:50 PM, you wrote: > willhill wrote: >> I imagine they are making a framework rather than re-inventing all of those >> tools. Why fork or remake iSCSI, samba, etc? The nice thing about having >> lots of good little tools is that you can chain them together in new and >> unexpected ways. Security is easier that way too. The only thing you have >> to worry about is the framework doing something silly that thwarts the >> policy of the components. >> >> > What they are doing is offering a software packaging of everything that > is NetApp's OnTap OS that they use on their NetApp filer boxes -- hence > the name. You still need a piece of hardware with the disks and > controllers, but this is essentially an open source competitor for the > software inside NetApp's offering and those of similar vendors for their > mid-tier storage boxes, >> Nice tool, Dustin. >> >> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 07:57, michael dolan wrote: >> >>> ... I'd be worried about security... Also, so much for doing one thing and >>> doing it well. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
