[brlug-general] OpenFiler?

[Dustin Puryear]

Did they mention anything about fail-over for NFS? :-)

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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.
>>>     
>>
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