@enly1 wrote:
Hi All,
I've allocated a couple of evenings now to Rockstor and i'm both quite impressed and a little worried at the same time.
I've seen some great stuff, but also seen more bugs than I can shake a stick at in terms of UI failures, things that just don't work.
Some examples of issues I've seen:
- OpenVPN rockon doesn't play well - won't start ( and yes, i've done the additional setup steps and tried several installs )
- Another Rockon ( can't remember which was in the same boat ).
- Replication - once the latest build at the time fixed whatever it broke (very quick fix - thanks), remote appliances are now available again, but I'm replicating 2 shares to the same remote pool and none of the UI really knows whats going on. Pool utilisation 300GB, share 16K for one and 2.3GB for the other. The big one just doesn't appear. Things don't seem to share out until the second replication etc. and the UI just doesn't make it clean at all. Looking at the history of the 'Personal share' replication and it provides pages of details about the other replication rask - nothing I could find about the major volume. So looks like its not replicated, but its there on the pool filesystem.
- I managed to get into a position where I couldn't delete a pool/disk as shares existed, but none shown in UI - went in manually and killed bits (thus having to work out the brtfs commands - not a great start ).
So thats just a couple of major issues I've seen over the last couple of evenings using the latest build.
So really not sure what do to - i've ported all my data over from Freenas in the hope for a slicker Linux based system, but really not sure i've made a mistake.
Can anyone else comment if these are recent issues, new functionality and/or i'ts just the current state of Rockstor thats not yet mature enough for real use ?
The support I got when I provided bug details of the broken appliance was excellent, but also, the number of bugs and the speed of release makes me think we've got a long way to go in terms of maturity of test cycles / processes etc.
This isn't supposed to be a slating of Rockstor or a winge in general, I'm genuinely seeking advice from those using it for real and if these are really minor issues that ( probably won't ) impact me in the core use of the product.
Thanks in advance
Simon
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