[Pc_Support] OpenFiler canned NAS (with SAN capabilities forthcoming) ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

I just heard about this on the CentOS list.  I'm extremely
impressed with where they are at today with version 1.1 as a
_complete_ NAS (based on CentOS 3 -- kernel 2.4, LVM, Samba,
NFS v3)!

  http://www.openfiler.com/docs/roadmap.html  

- Various authentication/directory (as well as local) support
- CIFS/SMB, NFS v3 and HTTP, including ACLs and Quota support
- Easy network, host, group, etc... definition/access control

Let alone they have some pretty lofty clustering-failover and
SAN goals they are working towards for 2.0 (seemingly based
on CentOS 4 -- kernel 2.6, LVM2/DM, GFS, Samba, NFS v3/4). 
Heck, once they get WebDAV in there (especially with DeltaV),
that would just be the _killer_app_ (and would plummel
SharePoint).

The FAQs:  
http://www.openfiler.com/docs/faq/openfiler-general-faq.html 
http://www.openfiler.com/docs/faq/openfiler-administration-faq.html

And Screenshots ...
- Network/host definitions and access control:  
http://www.openfiler.com/screenshots/shots/general_local_networks_1.png
http://www.openfiler.com/screenshots/shots/shares_edit_share_3.png
- Select directory service(s):  
http://www.openfiler.com/screenshots/shots/accounts_authentication_2.png
- Group and host access control:  
http://www.openfiler.com/screenshots/shots/shares_edit_share_5.png
- Quotas:  
http://www.openfiler.com/screenshots/shots/quota_group_quota_2.png



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