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Why is that worrying? They consider FC support to be an Enterprise feature which I'd say is a pretty fair assessment. They are in the business of making money a
by tw04 7y ago
Why is that worrying? They consider FC support to be an Enterprise feature which I'd say is a pretty fair assessment. They are in the business of making money and their way of doing it is by charging for certain features. If you don't want to pay, build your own freebsd nas from scratch and enable FC. I don't understand why that's concerning.
- justinclift 7y agoMy point is there isn't an "enable FC" option in the base FreeNAS image. Otherwise people would be doing it already. :( It's sounds like FC is being "kept back" from people that want it, in maybe more an open-core approach.
- jaywalk 7y agoAll of the "Enterprise" features are being "kept back" from Core. That's kind of how tiered software packages work...
- justinclift 7y agoUgh. It's not just "Enterprises" that use FC, though it's the most common case. It's also in use by people that buy FC gear on Ebay, as they want some of the capabilities that FC offers for whatever reason. If they've really decided to lock OSS customers out of using FC gear (which would be crappy), this definitely sounds like a move to "Open Core" or something like it and would a shame. :/
- jaywalk 7y agoCome on man, you can make that exact same argument for damn near every "Enterprise" feature locked away behind a paid tier in every piece of software.
- unethical_ban 7y agoLet us be clear: They are already doing that and always have been. This is just unifying the name and the source code.
- growse 7y agoBecause FreeNAS supports fibre channel today.
- tw04 7y agoLet's be clear - you can hack FreeNAS to add FC functionality, but it absolutely doesn't support it out of the box. I don't see why that would change just because the name changed from FreeNAS to TrueNAS Core. They obviously aren't using a kernel with FC support removed or it wouldn't just be a license key to move to TrueNAS enterprise, it would be a completely different image.
- growse 7y agoAh, this is fair - "supports" is the wrong conceph. I hadn't quite put 2 and 2 together with the fact that if the kernel features and client tools exist on TrueNAS, they'll also exist on FreeNAS (because it's the same image).