Cockpit ZFS Manager

[cookiesowns]

Any chance for a beta test? I have disposal systems with a variety of disk configs. I'm also a react dev too so can help with dev work if needed.

 

[unclerunkle]

Any updates on the new v1 release? Greatly appreciate the work you've put in here, really enjoy the cockpit integration!

 

[daillusionist]

Is this project now officially shelved? Any ideas?

 

[bmensah8directgroup]

Is this project now officially shelved? Any ideas?

I have a feeling 45Drive may have something to do with this. They released Houston which is very identical to this project. 45Drives - Storage Solutions by Storage Experts

 

[BeTeP]

They did fork the ZFS manager a few months ago

GitHub - 45Drives/cockpit-zfs-manager: Cockpit ZFS Manager is an interactive ZFS on Linux admin package for Cockpit.

Cockpit ZFS Manager is an interactive ZFS on Linux admin package for Cockpit. - 45Drives/cockpit-zfs-manager

github.com

 

[TheDarkCorner]

Okay this is pretty damn sad. The company that forked it (bought it?) has only done some minimal work on the current release, and it seems all the goodies of the not released 1.0 version will never see the light of day.
It was sooo promising!

Thanks anyway for the amazing work, it was good while it lasted.. Back to shell or maybe TrueNAS.

 

[SecCon]

I apologise for necromancing here, but I have no history with zfs-manager other that stumbling over it looking at Cockpit available third party applications. It is listed at their site. Applications — Cockpit Project

Fedora uses Cockpit as default server manager in 38, so that's why I got in to this.

What is the take on the current release? GitHub - 45Drives/cockpit-zfs-manager: Cockpit ZFS Manager is an interactive ZFS on Linux admin package for Cockpit. Even @optimans seems to have contributed. Seems to me 45Drives and Cockpit people has a few things going on, more or less connected. Same people? Is it any good?

 

[Morgan Simmons]

I apologise for necromancing here, but I have no history with zfs-manager other that stumbling over it looking at Cockpit available third party applications. It is listed at their site.

Fedora uses Cockpit as default server manager in 38, so that's why I got in to this.

What is the take on the current release? GitHub - 45Drives/cockpit-zfs-manager: Cockpit ZFS Manager is an interactive ZFS on Linux admin package for Cockpit. Even @optimans seems to have contributed. Seems to me 45Drives and Cockpit people has a few things going on, more or less connected. Same people? Is it any good?

It's been great! I'm sad that we don't get the interaction with the dev here like we used to, but the software is good

 

[SecCon]

Care to share if you used ZFS or something else? I am getting that error about version 0.8 in ZFS, even after installing the 45Drives ZFS support

Install ZFS manager
sudo git clone https://github.com/45drives/cockpit-zfs-manager.git
sudo cp -r cockpit-zfs-manager/zfs /usr/share/cockpit

This package requires ZFS version 0.8 or later
If ZFS is installed, check the module is loaded into the kernel.

KB450310 - Creating a ZFS Pool and Datasets in Houston UI - 45Drives Knowledge Base

You are here: KB Home Houston KB450310 – Creating a ZFS Pool and Datasets in Houston UI Table of Contents Scope/DescriptionPrerequisitesStepsAccessing the ZFS TabCreating the ZFS PoolCreating ZFS Filesystem/DatasetVerificationTroubleshootingFurther Reading Scope/Description This article will...

knowledgebase.45drives.com

 

[SecCon]

I am actually not very keen on using this.

Reasons:
- One proprietary developer , 45drives.
- No other relevant forks
- Too much dependency, as far as I can tell, with Cockpit project.
- I have seen a lot better management of shares and storage in TrueNAS Scale

I also made an issue on Github about removing the application, but solve it myself with other help.

Will this mean I leave Fedora, Cockpit and 45Drives apps? Not Fedora, I will look for alternatives for the others.