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Monday, December 1. 2008

While preparing the next part for the configuration walkthrough of the Sun 7000 my mind was playing with an desire: I want this interface on an soho device. I played around with many NAS boxes but there wasn´t a single interface in the class of the Fishworks interface. Intel Atoms are cheap enough to build real soho NAS devices from it ...

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris, Sun/Oracle at 13:40 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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... but fishworks is not opensource or even freely available to play with on "real" hardware

#1 Nono on 2008-12-01 14:43 (Reply)

Perhaps Sun should cooperate with a manufacturer of SoHo devices ...

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-12-01 14:44 (Reply)

It's a good idea. Lots of small businesses can't / won't buy rack systems (it's so sad that Sun has ZERO "tower" servers systems)

#1.1.1 Nono on 2008-12-01 15:38 (Reply)

Fishworks isn't open source? I thought that's the main feature of this whole system. Or did I get it wrong?!

Regards from Switzerland
- Chris

#1.2 Chris on 2008-12-01 17:44 (Reply)

Fishworks isn´t opensource.

#1.2.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-12-01 17:46 (Reply)

Then the appliance not built from open source components.

It's built from some open source components, but also some non open source components.

Someone's playing some sort of word game.

Saying a closed-source compilation is built from OSS components is like saying a burger is built out of lettuce.

Sure it contains lettuce, but it's still a big fat lie.

#1.2.1.1 Jimmy on 2008-12-21 22:36 (Reply)

Hmm ... i expected such an comment from day one i wrote that fishworks isn´t open source. You can build an storage system with all the storage functionalities when you take an OpenSolaris Community Edition ... and everything is opensource in that package (minus drivers, we are not allowed to publish, but it´s easy to circumvent such hardware). I don´t see a lie anywhere ...

#1.2.1.1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-12-22 05:19 (Reply)

It's built from Open-Source components.
A small but important semantic difference...

Would be could if NASs had the ability to power-down themselves once no workstation is active anymore.
The workstations could send WoL-events to it once they boot-up.
Maybe an idea for FreeNAS...

#1.2.2 Rainer (Homepage) on 2008-12-01 20:38 (Reply)

It uses OpenSource components ... Fishworks isn´t the Filer product. Fishworks is a software to build appliances. Fishworks is it´s own piece of code.

#1.2.2.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-12-02 07:41 (Reply)

Hm. Bummer! I was very interested in the DTrace monitoring thing, but I'm working on it by myself.

Have a nice week all!

#1.2.3 Chris on 2008-12-02 07:32 (Reply)

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