Re: RFC Fedora 23 Change idea
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On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 18:44 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking today that for Fedora 23 it would really cool to
> deliver a NAS
> version of Fedora 23. I could see it being delivered in 2 formats.
>
> 1 an atomic based disk image. it could be preinstalled, you dd the
> image onto
> a disk or a usb stick plug it in and boot, you could use initial
> -setup to set
> a root password, set timezone etc, then use cockpit to manage and
> configure.
> my thought here is that you could use a mirco-atx system with 4 or 6
> sata
> ports and you use all the disks for data and boot and run the system
> from a
> small piece of media, 16 or 32G usb stick for instance. or even a
> beaglebone
> black or similar arm based device with a attached usb disk
>
> 2 as a option you can select on a regular install.
>
> The roles would be iscsi( or some other block device), nfs, smb/cifs.
> all
> managed and configured using cockpit, a user could carve up the
> attached disk,
> be able to alloacte nfs or smb/cifs or export some raw space as a
> block
> device, for use in vms etc.
>
> I know it is a pretty rough outline but figured I would get something
> out and
> some discussion to see if what others thought. I think especially
> the atomic
> version could be really useful. a very simple way to get some storage
> up and
> running and use and keep it updated. especially long term, since
> going from
> Fedora 23 to 24 should be a simple atomic update.
The atomic-based one is an interesting idea, but it's a pretty crowded
space. For example, I've got a Synology D214 at home that is basically
this exact idea in a relatively cheap (and low-power) case. It's even
built atop Linux and open-source[1] (though the UI is not).
Yes, it is an option but I'd not call it that cheap - I'm actually
interested in and I was considering bying it. But then I started to
Google it and I was pretty disappointed, that it is standard proprietary
vendor lock-in thing although it's hackable at least...
Jaroslav