The Jurassic Park Effect - Are NAS OS Worth Using
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The Jurassic Park Effect - Are NAS Operating Systems Ever Worth Using on the StorageCraft Blog.
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I have to ask as I've seen you say it before.
@scottalanmiller >This approach sacrifices the vertical integration of the NAS in exchange for horizontal flexibility and standardization.
Can you define: What is vertical integration vs horizontal flexibility (please compare the two)
And why one would fit better over the other.
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Worked with three different companies in the past twenty four hours that were hit by the JPE. One was marginally caused by the JPE, the other was totally caused by it. Both had it play a role, both happened to be FreeNAS specifically, but to no fault of FreeNAS' directly. And the third was 100% the JPE.
- One case, as predicted, system maintenance and uptime was significantly impacted by an inability to replicate and support the original install.
- One case required a leap from "easy GUI" to "deep under the hood knowledge during a moment of danger" resulting in totally destroying the system and needing to replace the physical device!
- One case left the, thankfully not in production, system inoperable with no means of repair.
That's just one day of issues I've dealt with personally that were either contributed to by, or completely caused by the JPE. The effect is non-trivial.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Jurassic Park Effect - Are NAS OS Worth Using:
Worked with three different companies in the past twenty four hours that were hit by the JPE. One was marginally caused by the JPE, the other was totally caused by it. Both had it play a role, both happened to be FreeNAS specifically, but to no fault of FreeNAS' directly. And the third was 100% the JPE.
- One case, as predicted, system maintenance and uptime was significantly impacted by an inability to replicate and support the original install.
- One case required a leap from "easy GUI" to "deep under the hood knowledge during a moment of danger" resulting in totally destroying the system and needing to replace the physical device!
- One case left the, thankfully not in production, system inoperable with no means of repair.
That's just one day of issues I've dealt with personally that were either contributed to by, or completely caused by the JPE. The effect is non-trivial.
Just wondering, where you hired (paid) to help resolve these issues?
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@Dashrender said in The Jurassic Park Effect - Are NAS OS Worth Using:
Just wondering, where you hired (paid) to help resolve these issues?
Yup in some of the cases. Which is great, fixing FreeNAS decisions that I recommended against is good because I tried hard to not have it happen. I really had fixing things that I recommended
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Literally just got off of the phone with someone who had a FreeNAS bug cause a system to become useless, just like the one case that happened today. But instead of it being the JPE encouraging a mistake, the same problem happened through a GUI bug. One of the big risks that the JPE introduces is that the GUI is all "extra" points of failure and has nowhere near the testing of the standard OS tools. So a little big can cause a lot of damage, as it did. The entire SAN had to be replaced due to a small bug in the FreeNAS interface.
