May be what you saying is true wrt. NexentaCore 2.0. But hey, think
about open source principals and development process. We do hope that
NexentaCore will become an official Debian distribution some day! We
evolving and driven completely by the community here. Anyone can
participate and fix the bugs and make it happen:
https://launchpad.net/distros/nexenta
As far commercial bits:
1. NexentaStor is still based off 1.x. Once 2.x branch is more or less
polished we will make a safe transition
2. ON patches goes through serious stress testing not only by Nexenta
but also by the growing list of Nexenta partners - i.e. to ensure that
end solution is absolutely stable and safe:
http://www.nexenta.com/partners
3. The development model of NexentaCore is indeed very much Debian-like.
However, NexentaStor is developed with different rules in mind - rules
of focused testing, conservative principals and partner-wide openness
4. Is Debian helping NexentaStor to integrate stuff? Yes, absolutely!
Lots of advantages here. Debian is NOT just package management as one
could think of - it is as well a polished distribution foundation.
NexentaStor plugins, which are pretty much Debian packages, used to
extend NexentaStor capabilities. Learn more:
http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_jreviews&Itemid=112
C. Bergström wrote:
Anil Gulecha wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bogdan M. Maryniuk
<bogdan.maryn...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Joe S <js.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
EON ZFS NAS
http://eonstorage.blogspot.com/
No idea.
NexentaCore Platform (v2.0 RC3)
http://www.nexenta.org/os/NexentaCore
Personally, I tried it few times. For now, it is still too much broken
for me yet and looks scary. Previous version is much more stable but
also older. Newer v2.0 looks exactly like bleeding edge Debian old
times: each time you run "apt-get upgrade" you have to use shaman's
tambourine dancing around the fireplace. I don't remember exactly, but
some packages are just broken and can not find dependencies,
installation crashes, pollutes your system and can not be restored
nicely etc. However, when it will be not that broken anymore, it must
be a great distribution with excellent package management and very
convenient to use.
Hi Bogdan,
Which particular packages were these? RC3 is quite stable, and all
server packages are solid. If you do face issues with a particular
one, we'd appreciate a bug report. All information on this is
helpful..
I've done some preliminary patch review on the core on-nexenta patches
and I'd concur to put Nexenta pretty low on the trusted list for
enterprise storage. This is in addition to the packaging problems
you've pointed out. If the issues at hand were not enough when I sent
an email to their dev list it was completely ignored. Marketing for
Nexenta as Anil points out is strong, but like many other distributions
outside Sun there's still a lot of work to go. I'm not sure EON's
update delivery, but I believe it's just a minimal repackage of
OpenSolaris release. This isn't the advocacy list so if you're
interested in other alternatives feel free to email me off list.
Cheers,
./Christopher
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