Showing your age there a little. Yes I did touch one of those, or itās kin, one time: and it was still in service. But not at home obviously. I thought the partially evacuated vertical tape cabinets were a little more impressive. At least to look at. Like āproperā technology - lots of moving parts to see. Hey ho - onward and downward.
Iām personally looking forward to playing with clustered file systems, Iād love to add a āone clickā (or not many more) Glusterfs setup to Rocsktor but we have a thing or two to do before such shenanigans.
Ultimately something has to talk to / monitor / manage the metal - hence our drive serial tracking.
Whilst on the object storage front, I think thereās a docker image somewhere that setups up S3 compatible object storage. That would make a nice Rock-on, pull request anyone.
Yes I particularly like the ethos of GNU / linux. Itās akin to the scientific approach but in software development. All in the open and sharing each others efforts. Bit hit-and-miss from time to time but better that than the proprietary alchemist approach. Also does wonders for democratising computer tech, at least on the software front.
Fedora (gnome) on main machine with Ubuntu on secondaries myself, though yet to upgrade to 17.10. Bar the numerous Rockstor ( CentOS ) installs of course.
If you fancy taking a peek / poke at Rockstorās innards anytime itās actually quite approachable. Though we are working on improving the in-code comments; but they do - mostly - exist. The majority of the āworkā is done in Python so itās fairly approachable. The following Contributing to Rockstor - Overview doc section is a good place to start - but not on your production machine of course as it wipes the db when rebuilding.
Iāll try and post pics of my custom PSU mounts made from metal coasters with an angle grinder (cutting disk) some time.