I got my system to work using the Demo edition of DSS, but not the lite edition. I’ve found too many bugs to leave me with any comfort level and will be switching over to testing Comstar testing next week.

Oh, and open-E’s free version was good for up to 2TB if you *acted now*. I heard you probably already have a copy of that though

Unfortunately, 2TB isn’t even enough for most home users nowadays, at least not me. So… nexenta or opensolaris it is. COMSTAR for opensolaris has made things MUCH more interesting. Homebrew FC target gives you the best of both worlds.

http://opensolaris.org/os/project/comstar/

I’m still playing with Open-E, I got a 60 day full-function trial version from their website and it seems to do almost everything as advertised. They have a “Lite” version that is supposed to be full-function (up to 1TB) but my early testing seems to show it doesn’t include a lot of the driver support that’s in the full version. (My Adaptec 2610 {dell CERC 1.5/6} doesn’t read correctly)

Open-E is not long for the world in my datacenter though, the production version is too expensive for what it is, not when I can get everything I need on the OpenSource.

I’m thinking that between the open-source driver, Samba, and NFSv4 that comes with CentOS5.1, I should have everything I need in a fileserver. I just need to make sure that the ‘fileio’ locking doesn’t break VMWare.