OMV in the enterprise.

Volker, the developer of OMV, was one of the orignal developers of the Freenas project. You might take a look at this thread:

http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1493

Freenas is iXsystems as they now own the brand freenas nas4free is the home of the original version.

Nas4free is not the original. Freenas was. Nas4free is a continuation of the original Freenas project. Don't really care about this because I won't use a FreeBSD system.

Zitat von "tekkbebe"

Nas4free is not the original. Freenas was. Nas4free is a continaution of the original Freenas project. Don't really care about this because I won't use a FreeBSD system.

I do not care wich system he is using as long he gets what fits him. But what you tell is not true

"NAS4Free is an embedded Open Source Storage NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD. This project is a continuation of FreeNAS 7 series project."

This is from their website. I am not going to take the time to argue this point. You are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS4Free

Yes, Tekkbebe, NAS4Free is not a fork, but the continued development of FreeNAS. FreeNAS 8 is a Fork of FreeNAS 0.7.

"It was reported December 2009 that FreeBSD based development would be halted and put into "maintenance-only mode" with Debian GNU/Linux as the new development target OS. This decision was reversed shortly afterwards, when iXsystems offered to sponsor the further development of FreeNAS. Eventually in 2011, the legacy .7 branch became end-of-life'd under the FreeNAS brand and was rebranded as NAS4Free. While NAS4Free is the direct continuation of the original code under development from 2005 till late 2011, FreeNAS 8.x.y and up is a software fork of the original FreeNAS with a new rewritten code-basis, continuing the old branded name."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS

Zitat von "tekkbebe"

Volker, the developer of OMV, was one of the orignal developers of the Freenas project. You might take a look at this thread:

http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1493

I think what lindsay doesn't get is I'm talking about the origianl Freenas Project. Not the forked project.

Okay, my bad.

Greetings
David

Also, I consider that if someone takes original sourcecode and alters it that is a fork. But maybe,technically, you need 2 parties doing the same to consider it a fork.

I think the difference is that FreeNAS continues under the same name, but is a complete rewrite from scratch.
NAS4Free continued to use the original code of the E-O-L-d FreeNAS version 0.7.

Greetings
David

Anyway a network with 2000 users using eighter cifs of nfs or even iSCSI has to have not only power but some bonding of cards.
And i do belive when he was mention freenas was looking at truenas wich iXsystems want to sell to companies

ZFS is a must but demands a huge amount of memory if you want to include all the functions.

It could be nice to see some benchmarks of the system wich the topic starter is choosing

If you are looking for more enterprise features I believe it will come in time. I don't think we will have zfs though. OMV in time will most likely be able to use BTRFS. The new Freenas project has some sponsors so more money to develop features. I believe Volker made the switch from FreeBSD to Debian because he sees linux as the future. In time I think he will be proven correct and hopefully we see more developers supporting OMV.

@tekkbebe

When i talk about ZFS it is because of a company solution as scrub of pools checks for errors of data in pool and report.
ZFS is complex and if you do things wrong can loose a entire pool.

I guess a company try to cover from loosing data more then a home user.

I have both nas4free and omv wich suits me and the data i have only ripped movies of my DVD and bluray collection.

BTRFS i have only been reading about not tested though.

My experiance is that nothing is covering all your needs when it comes to open source , but the majority of the users.
Solutions wich is open source is huge, but it depends a good community

For your information I found this yesterday : http://shop.tactfactory.com/

This NOT an advertising post : I was searching about an OMV guest in a Proxmox container.

I think Volker may be glad to see an turnkey hardware based on his work.

I also was surprised to see the exact same case as mine (a Chenbro one).

About OMV in enterprise - my two cents
I'd like to say that since I switched my filer to OMV I did not co complain about anything : OMV just works. I was searching a job some month ago and I had thoughts about creating my own business to distribute open sourced solutions. OMV was (and still is) one of my favourite software if I create my business.

I rely on OMV for my personal use, my business and my customers will rely on OMV too !

Volker : I think and I wish OMV will be one of the best open source filer very soon.

Thanks a lot for your great work.

I also noticed this name change and thought about signaling it to Volker. I changed my mind after reading on the website they claim to use OMV (and Proxmox).

I think proxmox is dedicated to run other appliances by isolating them each other (exactly as I'm doing with ESXi)

I sent a pm to Volker on several issues. I gave him a link to this. He may be already aware of it. Give it 24 hours dethegeek and you should see the extra section in forum.