[TriLUG] openfiler vs freenas

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Hardware not supported on freenas (at least for the hardware raid controller). Playing around with openfiler, and the #1 thing I hate is the ability to customize it with other packages (of which ...i'll say conary is horrible... or at least what they have in the repository is). Tinkering around with compiling for source... and it's been... well a hassle.

At this point, it's almost worth buying hardware that is 100% supported on freenas because I know I'll be able to do what I want.

Openfiler... -1

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Matt Pusateri
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 2:52 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] openfiler vs freenas

Personally I like freenas better but then I'm a BSD guy.  If I'm not mistaken openfiler started out as being based on Centos, then moved to an rpath based distro.  I see now that openfiler just says a linux 2.6 based system. i haven't followed them closely, but I just have a hinky feeling about openfiler and where they intend to take the product.  Seems to me when you have a community project that you start making more generic in terms of marketing, that it doesn't bode well for long term community support.  Don't get me wrong I'm all for having to pay for value added features like a web ui configuration.  They have to make money somewhere.  I'm also not saying that they are doing any nefarious or intend to.  Just that it makes me skeptical.  Freenas didn't used to have iSCSI support, so you had to use openfiler if you needed that, but it does now.

Matt P.

On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:37 PM, <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:

> Anyone have any comments between these two? I'm currently testing both at home to see which one I like better. So far the size of the freenas install has the advantage...
> 
> Eric
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