[Leica] Anyone using Drobo

[alal at poly.edu (A. Lal)]

Thanks for the clarification Spencer. I am still on the imagstore list and 
shall follow your progress with interest.

All the best,
Akhil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Cheng" <spencer at aotera.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Anyone using Drobo


> Amazing how much LUG email accumulates in 3 weeks while I was away 
> (>3000).
>
> A few comments -
>
> 1/ There was never any intention to design H/W specific for Imagestore 
> because we are not in the H/W business. I have a box under my desk which I 
> built up specific for the project using commodity H/W. Currently I am 
> using it as an ordinary NAS running FreeNAS. ImageStore was going to be 
> some code we were going to give away to NAS companies or donate back to 
> FreeNAS, layered on FreeNAS.
>
> 2/ I am currently tied up doing a contract. Once I am free of that, I'll 
> get back to ImageStore. As this is a best-effort-on-my-spare-time project, 
> no guarantee of progress, if ever.
>
> 3/ I know the pieces, the underlying technology and what I want it to do. 
> It's a matter of knitting all the bits together.
>
> 4/ I am also waiting for FreeNAS 8.0. FreeNAS 7.x (current release) is not 
> really stable enough for our intended purpose. 8.0 should be released in 
> the next few months.
>
> Regards,
> Spencer
>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 9:07, A. Lal wrote:
>> I was on the Imagstore list. At the moment the list is dormant. I don't 
>> believe any HW was actually designed or built.
>>
>
>
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