[olug] NAS Cluster

[Curtis LaMasters]

We have been using it at my company for about 6 months in light beta and
I've been using it for about a year at home.  It replaced my FreeNAS server
with great success.  On a side note, it is Debian based I believe.

Curtis LaMasters
http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
http://www.builtnetworks.com


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh at dundeemt.com>
> wrote:
> > Anyone have experience with openfiler?  It looks interesting.
>
> We used it at my previous job with reasonable success.  It installed
> easy enough, and worked quite well.  Getting it configured for LDAP
> support for permissions took a little bit of research, but everything
> else was really easy to configure, and the LDAP wasn't impossible.  We
> didn't have any real issues or problems with it once it was up and
> running.
>
> My biggest complaint was that the 'stable' release was getting rather
> (very) long in the tooth, and lacking some newer features that we were
> hoping for.  The beta release seemed to go on forever, and I had some
> concern about whether development on the project had stalled.
> However, it looks like they have since released the new version, so
> these concerns may be moot.
>
> Basically, you can get everything from a Linux distribution that you
> get with OpenFiler, but you'll be doing it all manually.  OpenFiler
> allows you to create a dedicated storage appliance out of a machine
> with a bunch of disks (or various forms of attached storage) easily
> and with a lot of flexibility.
>
> > -Jeff
>
> --
> Christopher
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