RFC Fedora 23 Change idea

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> 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