Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Leonard Isham wrote:
>
>> On 11/9/05, Robin Mordasiewicz <robin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:00 +0100, Henk van Lingen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bryan,
>>>>> Please tell. I have to replace our old Sun Enterprise fileserver
>>>>> (solaris8), which does NFS and Samba (homedirectories, projects file
>>>>> space). It will be x86 hardware, but I'm looking for the best
>>>>> filesystem
>>>>> for the job (let's say one terabyte). It has to have quota and ACL
>>>>> support.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NetApp is very costly per $ versus traditional file storage. But the
>>>> Data OnTap OS with WAFL filesystem was basically designed by 2 of Sun's
>>>> original NFS designers. WAFL works very different than most
>>>> traditional
>>>> UNIX server filesystems.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I will attest that NetApp is an excellent choice. NetApp is more pricey,
>>> but they do have an entry level system called the FAS270, which is leaps
>>> ahead of an EMC Clarion if you can even compare them, and for the added
>>> flexibilty the price is not very much more. I think NetApp pretty much
>>> stands alone. I don't think another solution will allow you to do CIFS,
>>> NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel all from the same platform, but there may
>>> be. I have used the RedHat Clustering solution and it was a hassle.
>>>
>>> P.s. I have nothing to do with the NetApp company, but I just love their
>>> product after having used it in almost every place I have worked at.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone considered or used OpenFiler? It's based on CentOS.
>> http://www.openfiler.com/
>>
>>
>
> I have had some contact with the company. Frankly, I thought they were
> rather expensive when you consider what's under the hood. I also wasn't
> too thrilled with their idea of service...."uh, if your system fails you
> can ship it back to us in the UK and we'll ship you another one." But
> maybe they've gotten better.
>
you seem to be confused... openfiler is an open source distro built on
CentOS. hardly the kind of thing you would need to 'ship to the UK'
- K
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