Posts tagged with: nfs

I think NetApp may be finding themselves in a bit of a tough spot if they're not careful. As you may know, they have filed a lawsuit against Sun claiming ZFS infringes on their patents.Jonathan Schwartz, being a reasonable man, got in contact with Dave Hitz of NetApps to discuss how they could settle this dispute. The response? NetApp want Sun to "unfree ZFS" i.e. retract all ZFS code from the free world - barn doors and horses come to mind here, and limit it to only run on computers and not storage devices - aren't storage devices computers too?.Naturally, Sun declined, but instead fired off it's own reciprocal suit.  Continue reading ►

I'll admit now, none of this work is mine: all credit needs to go to Borgan Chu and Shawn Ferry. All this post is doing is making it easier to find all the relevant information as it's scattered around a bit.Many people implement firewalls for security reasons, and many people encounter the one nightmare with firewalls that is RPC services, e.g. NFS. The problem with RPC services is that they use dynamic ports when they run. This makes it a bit of a nightmare to configure the respective ports as they're likely to change everytime the host reboots or the service restarts.  Continue reading ►