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I used FreeNAS years ago, version 8 as I recall and it seemed solid but there seems to be a lot of negativity in the comments here. Could someone fill me in wit
by mbell 9y ago
I used FreeNAS years ago, version 8 as I recall and it seemed solid but there seems to be a lot of negativity in the comments here. Could someone fill me in with what went so wrong with FreeNAS 10?
- robbiet480 9y agoFreeNAS promoted a major version to release, turns out it was half baked and they pulled the release a few _weeks_ after. Lost a lot of faith in the community. http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-corral-status-release-technology-preview-status/ http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-corral-status-release-te...
- slededit 9y agoThese disasters always come after "ground up" rewrites. The lesson has been clear since Netscape almost imploded in the 90s, evolve the existing code - don't rewrite.
- mbell 9y agoThat's largely due to 'failure bias'. You hear a lot more about failed rewrites than you do successful ones. I've been involved with a number of full rewrites over the years and all of them ended up greatly improving the product and development process.
- slededit 9y agoHow large were these products? I've also experienced rewrites that went somewhat successfully, but I can't say we wouldn't have been better off upgrading the existing code in place.