[DRBD-user] openfiler HA

Jack Wang xjtuwjp at gmail.com
Thu May 3 03:41:30 CEST 2012

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Hi Elias,

I think openmediavault should supports cluster, but current web UI is
not have interface to setup HA,

but you can setup manually follow any debian drbd setup howto

Jack

2012/5/2 Elias Chatzigeorgiou <echatzig at gmail.com>:
> Hi Jack,
>     thanks for your suggestion.
>
> However, I did a quick search for any reference related to HA but couldn't
> find any info.
>
> Can you pls let me know if openmediavault supports clustering (e.g a two
> node active-passive setup)? Is the UI still functioning in the HA setup, or
> it needs hacking/extra development to allow clustering support?
>
> Rgds,
>     Elias
>
> On May 2, 2012 4:02 AM, "Jack Wang" <xjtuwjp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Agree on OF is almost dead, openmediavault is a much better alternate
>> with good design, featureful, easy to use.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>> 在 2012年5月2日 上午4:27,Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de> 写道:
>> > On 05/01/2012 03:13 PM, Elias Chatzigeorgiou wrote:
>> >> Hi Dennis,
>> >>    what makes you think openfiler is dead? I believe there are many
>> >> shops
>> >> that rely on OF for a quick storage solution.
>> >
>> > There is no active development taking place. If you go to the community
>> > page and follow the "coding" link you end up in the source repository.
>> > The last entry in the revision log is from March 2010.
>> >
>> > Also I spent two hours porting the code to centos 5 as a base and got as
>> > far as getting it to export nfs shares but the code isn't exactly nice
>> > to
>> > work with and it relies on a lot of patches to very basic commands such
>> > as
>> > "parted", "quota" and "lvm" so eventually I gave up because I don't
>> > really
>> > have the spare time to go all the way with this.
>> >
>> > If treated as a black box it might work for you but for maintenance you
>> > need to get used to rpath linux and don't expect any further development
>> > of
>> > features or compatibility with the latest hardware.
>> >
>> >>     Having said that, what would you propose as an alternative (that
>> >> also
>> >> includes a decent UI for starters) ?
>> >
>> > In terms of open projects there are FreeNAS and OpenMediaVault. FreeNAS
>> > is
>> > more mature and FreeBSD based and OpenMediaVault is a young project and
>> > Debian based. I haven't used either but they both look interesting and
>> > are
>> > actually active projects.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >  Dennis
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