Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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