Yuen L. Lee wrote:
Yuen L. Lee wrote:
Thanks, Matt! I have the same understanding from my
previous
experience. The difference is my code may not be
integrated into
the official distribution. I'm interested in
porting the ZFS to the Linux
platform because I'm attempting to use ZFS in
openfiler. I think it
would be an interesting and useful project.
What about porting openfiler to OpenSolaris ?
Good question! In my understanding, openfiler is
just a standalone version of the Linux based embedded
system with File-level protocols support, such as
NFS, CIFS, iSCSI (target/iniator), FTP and HTTP.
OpenSolaris supports all of them.
I think the fact that openfiler is Linux isn't the
relevant and interesting bit. The interesting bit is
the web based GUI to configure all those things.
The underlying technologies it is using are all
available in OpenSolaris distros as well.
A good place to start from might be Nexenta since that would
give you a Linux like environment to work in and might make
it easier to get the openfiler GUI up and running.
But It is a
complete, general purpose distribution. If it is
made to run as an appliance, I'm sure I don't need
to port ZFS to the openfiler (Linux) platform.
opensolaris could be a nice NAS filer. I posted
my question on "How to build a NAS box" asking for
instructions on how to build a Solaris NAS box.
It looks like everyone is busy. I haven't got any
response yet. By any chance, do you have any
doc on this subject? Thanks.
It might also be that where you posted it the correct people
aren't hanging out if you haven't already try:
The Appliances and NFS communities.
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/appliances/
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/nfs
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Darren J Moffat
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