Sorry in advance for the top-posting. :) That, my friend, is exactly what happens. Some admin deploys OF to save a little bit of money. Everyone forgets about the OF box that is quietly humming away in the data-center, reliably serving up files for a year or so. Admin leaves the company. A drive fails in the OF box. Nobody notices. Then another drive fails and all data is lost on the OF box. Everybody in the company freaks out because nobody knew the admin had setup this box and now a bunch of data got lost.
Somebody gets blamed and next time around the company buys Netapp. I'm just saying that PHBs have to consider the risks involved in deploying an OF solution. If you've got good Linux admins to manage the boxes, it might be an acceptable risk. If you're like most fortune 500 companies, it's probably not. Regards, Luke -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Touitou Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OF-users] What would you pay for Openfiler? Luke, Luke Youngblood a écrit : > With an OF solution it is not as clear-cut. Who do I blame when OF > dies and takes my company's data with it? Do I blame CentOS? > Openfiler? Generic beige-box computer manufacturer? How about blaming the guy who choosed OF (or CentOS or the generic beige-box) and/or is administrating it ? Or his chief/accounting guy because "we do not have the budget to build a storage box but you have to build it anyway ?" <snip> _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
