[Voyage-linux] RE: Voyage 7 kernel with RAID support

[Demian Martin]

I liked what Openfiler did but found that it was something of a closed environment, making the process of adding a package challenging. Similar for FreeNAS and the other efforts. Also it is very IT centric with high expectations of the users knowledge and skills. Most users that skilled in IT would just use the command line. 

I like the concept of a flash based OS with the storage separate, which is the attraction of Voyage for this.

A web ui is a big project. I would suggest breaking it down into specific chunks of key tasks or it will never start without some major financial incentive.
           -Demian 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gustin Johnson [mailto:gustin at meganerd.ca] 
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 1:24 AM
To: Demian Martin
Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] RE: Voyage 7 kernel with RAID support

For a UI solution, you might want to look at Luci, it is what the
OpenWRT guys use.  The hard part (well more tedious) will be
implementing the UCI layer that the GUI interacts with.  The other
option is to look at the UI from the openfiler people.   It does a
pretty good job of doing a NAS based UI.  The Active Directory GUI
stuff could use a lot of work on this project, but generally I have
been happy with how well it serves the less technical or non-Linux
people (openfiler is what most of my family and friends are using for
their home brew NAS solutions).

I would disagree that a GUI is a requirement *in the short term*.  It
is a nice to have, and certainly something you would want for general
consumption, but my take is that we should enable the kernel and then
work from there.  This is a lot of work and is something best tackled
by a team or the wider Voyage community IMO.

I also agree that an Alix is not the best platform for a NAS device.
There are some solid 1156 and 1155 based mini-itx boards that look
promising.  Ideally you would want a minimum of 4 SATA ports.

At home my NAS box is a Ubuntu box with a lot of disks.  I do all the
management from the CLI, which is a good way to get familiar with the
tech.  I would be willing to help where I could as I would love to see
a truly open, Linux based solution in this space.

Cheers,