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