Rockstor - an alternative to FreeNAS

[RMerlin]

Heya,

Dunno if they just aren't very well known or I somehow missed that project, but I just found out about Rockstor, a Linux-based alternative to FreeNAS. Anyone has any thoughts about it? They seem to offer a lot of interesting features based on the info from their website:

http://rockstor.com/

Some nice bullet points:

• BTRFS
• Snapshot support
• NAS-to-NAS syncing, for disaster recovery (and, I assume, HW migration)
• Docker-based plugins

 

[System Error Message]

Some still arent confident with BTRFS. I use it and it works well for me, doesnt have any of the problems people were complaining about when it was new.

NAS-NAS sync is a very good feature. Aerofs has become something else so being able to sync with another PC is great.

Rockstor looks like a good alternative to freeNAS for those wanting to build their own dedicated NAS. My NAS doesnt run such an OS as i need it to be able to do other things as well that both freeNAS and rockstor cant do which is GPU and openCL support, and running all the stuff a typical developer PC would such as distcc, gcc and so on.

If plex had openCL/GPU support that would be great though and so would these OSes too for media or other use.

 

[Nullity]

Some still arent confident with BTRFS. I use it and it works well for me, doesnt have any of the problems people were complaining about when it was new.

NAS-NAS sync is a very good feature. Aerofs has become something else so being able to sync with another PC is great.

Rockstor looks like a good alternative to freeNAS for those wanting to build their own dedicated NAS. My NAS doesnt run such an OS as i need it to be able to do other things as well that both freeNAS and rockstor cant do which is GPU and openCL support, and running all the stuff a typical developer PC would such as distcc, gcc and so on.

If plex had openCL/GPU support that would be great though and so would these OSes too for media or other use.

Yeah, I tested btrfs about a year ago and while running fsck (or something similarly safe) I hit ctrl-c, which with most things it would have failed gracefully but it didn't. Irreparable file-system corruption.

It's neat, but I wouldn't want to use it in a NAS setup where stability is vital.

 

[Cake]

Another nice point-

• open source