Marc Nicholas marc@hippocampus.net writes:

I'm interested to hear what others think the shortcomings of the current crop of NetApps are.

In addition to what other people have said:

1. Out-of-date SNMP implemention - (no CIFS or disk system statistics, for example)

2. ndmpcopy - incrementals don't work, rsh as UID 0 doesn't work, requires password to be passed on command line

3. NetApps are reboot-prone. Often will reboot when it should have just failed an obviously bad disk.

4. No command line Unix permissions tool for CIFS, the graphical permissions tool uses an undocumented proprietary extension to CIFS (that is, it won't work with Samba).

5. Disk reconstructions take far too long. We had one on a 200GB filesystem take 24 hours (dial set to 2 because any faster was causing severe problems for users, and this is on a decked-out F630).

Dan