> Thanks, but that makes it a problem to justify any extra cost. I > don't think my company cares whether I have to work a little > harder or not, and in fact I'd rather edit a few config > files than deal with the paperwork every year to get > approvals for an extra expense. And since I maintain other > stock Centos boxes it is probably easier to clone them > and be able to move services around than to have something > different with different update repositories. >
Actually there are things which can be done using Openfiler which cannot be done using a CentOS box. This includes per-share network ACLs for example.. there are source code patches for this type of stuff which we've written. To replicate a full-blown Openfiler configuration successfully on a CentOS box would a futile experience. There are several things a system administrator would have to know firstly which even many top-of-the-line storage-trained sysadmins wouldn't. And even if they did, they'd have to spend a considerable amount of time doing non-trivial configuration work, testing issues and maintaining the configuration. Companies usually do like things which are configurable easily.. many system administrators would agree that they have better things to do with their time, like try and talk to the company secretary ;) Mukund _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
