Rockstor is a specialist CentOS-based Linux distribution designed for Network Attached Storage (NAS) an
d private cloud storage solutions. It is based on popular open-source technologies, such as the Btrfs file system a
nd Docker for automating the deployment of applications inside software containers. In addition to standard NAS fea
tures like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snaps
hots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are also supported. Rockstor provides additional
applications, including ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN and Plex. These applications (called "Rock-ons") are powered
by a Docker-based application hosting framework. The Rockstor user interface, written in JavaScript, makes it simpl
e to manage the server from within a web browser.
Suman Chakravartula has announced the release of Rockstor 3.8-10, the latest stable build of the project's CentOS-based specialist Linux distribution for Network Attached Storage (NAS) tasks: "Rockstor 3.8-10 is now available. This is our second release in the Stable updates channel. We closed 13 issues in this release, compared to 20 in 3.8-9. And this release took a bit longer. If you are wondering why, it’s because of the big feature improvement in this release: asynchronous replication. This feature efficiently replicates Shares on one Rockstor appliance to another by using Btrfs send/receive functionality. While this feature was added a while ago, it was a bit over-engineered and buggy, so it had to be improved. I started refactoring the existing pub-sub design and ended up completely redesigning it. The result is a much simpler and more robust implementation. I plan to write more about it here and the community wiki soon.
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Rockstor is a specialist CentOS-based Linux distribution designed for Network Attached Storage (NAS) an
d private cloud storage solutions. It is based on popular open-source technologies, such as the Btrfs file system a
nd Docker for automating the deployment of applications inside software containers. In addition to standard NAS fea
tures like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snaps
hots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are also supported. Rockstor provides additional
applications, including ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN and Plex. These applications (called "Rock-ons") are powered
by a Docker-based application hosting framework. The Rockstor user interface, written in JavaScript, makes it simpl
e to manage the server from within a web browser.
