Projects

mdadm

mdadm is a tool for creating, maintaining, and monitoring Linux "md" device arrays, also known as Software RAID.

GParted

The GParted application is a graphical partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions. A disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions. The GParted application enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the contents of ... [More] the partitions. GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. Several optional file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. [Less]

ZFS

ZFS is a new kind of file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of ... [More] obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use. [Less]

FreeNAS

FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, Unison, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5), ZFS with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.

ClearOS

ClearOS is an integrated network server gateway solution for small and distributed organizations. The software provides all the necessary server tools to run an organization including email, antivirus, antispam, file sharing, groupware, VPN, firewall, intrusion detection/prevention, content ... [More] filtering, bandwidth management, multi-WAN and more. Through the intuitive web-based management console, an administrator can configure local ClearOS server software along with integrated cloud-based services. [Less]

Enterprise Volume Management System

The Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) Project has the goal of providing unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. It represents a new approach to logical volume management, as the architecture introduces a plug-in model that allows for easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume management.

DRBD

DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1.

Openfiler

Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework. Openfiler uses the rPath Linux metadistribution. It is distributed as a stand-alone Linux ... [More] distribution. The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source. File-based networking protocols supported by Openfiler include: NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV and FTP. Network directories supported by Openfiler include NIS, LDAP (with support for SMB/CIFS encrypted passwords), Active Directory (in native and mixed modes) and Hesiod. Authentication protocols include Kerberos 5. Openfiler includes support for volume-based partitioning, iSCSI (target and initiator), [Less]

OpenSAN

OpenSAN is a free software project realizing Storage Area Network system. This is small firmware that turns server (having at least one hard drive) into an iSCSI target accessible through the Ethernet interface.

drobo-utils

A library, GUI and sample cli script for managing Data Robotics storage units on Linux. (http://www.drobo.com) There is a library, Drobo.py, which implements the ioctl interface defined in the published specs and code samples.