OpenFiler

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by uxbod

Yep just a pity the subscribe to did not notify me of a reply

I can't imagine why, I get notifications from the forum when there's an update to a thread. Perhaps some feedback in the forums to see if there's any problems might be appropriate and you could always jump on irc.freenode.net , channel: #openfiler to ask what's happening.

[uxbod]

Not from work Well all is good anyway as somebody has said mini-itx is okay for my small iSCSI SAN. Thanks Bill

[Klug]

Did you try Open-E ?

They have a free version (limited to 2TB and missing some features from the paying version: bonding, FC HBA, RAID card support, failover, etc) that can be used in SOHO environment.

Free Data Storage Software V6 Lite (DSS V6 Lite)

[uxbod]

No not yet as need to buy my final server first I just wonder how it would stack in comparison with OpenFiler as the feature set seems very similar. I would presume OF has NIC bonding as standard.

[Klug]

I don't know for OF (I have not looked at it for quite a long time).

[uxbod]

How do you find performance for Open-E Klug ?

[Klug]

Good enough for my use (hosting LAMP VM with XenServer) 8)

I have not benched it and the hardrives currently in the Open-E server are not that fast (SATA2 7200 rpm).

Before the end of the year, I should setup a new server with NearLine disks (or even better), I'll try to bench it.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by uxbod

Hi Phoenix ... Yes I tried resending it about 10 times ... even a test email. The archives https://lists.openfiler.com/pipermail/openfiler-users/ appeared to stop in October 2008 aswell.

It's been confirmed that the mailing lists are inactive, I've suggested the web site be modified to reflect that.

[uxbod]

Thanks Bill.

[brian]

For what it's worth we use openfiler internally to do cluster functionality tests. It works fairly well to test functionality but I've seen a number of file system corruptions while doing failover testing in the last couple of years. Given this I'm not sure I would personally use it for a production deployment, at least in a ZCS clustered configuration.