Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
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 > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user