[SGVLUG] MDADM support

[Claude Felizardo]

Yes, FOSS is great until you try to do an update and something
somewhere breaks -- some developer somewhere decides to change
something not realizing or possibly not carrying that the change make
break someone else's program.   A good chunk of the problems I've run
into occurred during an upgrade.  You either have to keep up with
constant patches or lock it down then you get out of sync until
there's a security problem and you realize you are too many revs
behind.

I no longer have as much free time and my changes do effect other
people in the house so I no longer build own kernel, I no longer
manage my own firewall, I no longer manage my software RAID system,
etc.  Instead I use COTS products when possible (router, NAS) or find
someone else's program that does much of what I want and subscribe to
his mailing list (weather station).  Other projects have fallen by the
wayside such as parts of my home automation system, PBX with IVR, etc.

As for having visibility at the code, who has time to inspect
everything?  How many people could have caught Shell Shock but didn't?

Claude



On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:22 AM, John Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
> It is written:
>
>> I've been using Netgear ReadyNAS boxes for several years now and they
>> pretty much do everything automatically such as adding new devices,
>> repartitioning, swapping drives, etc, without me having to monitor
>> progress and issue the next set of mdadm commands each time.
>
>> [...]
>
> Really nice functionality in this ReadyNAS box, it appears.
>
> However, it's contrary to the spirit of FOSS.  The same functionality
> could be gained with a software program running on an existing computer.
> No additional hardware required, and if it's FOSS you have more
> visibility into what it's actually doing.
>
> The same can be said for firewalls with multiple ethernet cards.
>
> --
> OpenPGP key: http://ininx.com
>  John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
>  ...who won't use software he's forbidden to read ("reverse engineer").
>