Hi All, This is a bit off-topic...but since the Thumper is the poster child for ZFS I hope its not too off-topic.
What are the actual origins of the Thumper? I've heard varying stories in word and print. It appears that the Thumper was the original server Bechtolsheim designed at Kealia as a massive video server. However, when we were first told about it a year ago through Sun contacts "Thumper" was described as a part of a scalabe iSCSI storage system, where Thumpers would be connected to a head (which looked a lot like a pair of X4200s) via iSCSI that would then present the storage over iSCSI and NFS. Recently, other sources mentioned they were told about the same time that Thumper was part of the Honeycomb project. So I was curious if anyone had any insights into the history/origins of the Thumper...or just wanted to throw more rumors on the fire. ;-) Thanks in advance for your indulgence. Best Regards, Jason _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
