On Jan 24, 2007, at 04:06, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:15:21AM -0700, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
Wow. That's an incredibly cool story. Thank you for sharing it! Does
the Thumper today pretty much resemble what you saw then?
Yes, amazingly so: 4-way, 48 spindles, 4u. The real beauty of the
match between ZFS and Thumper was (and is) that ZFS unlocks new
economics
in storage -- smart software achieving high performance and ultra-high
If Thumper and ZFS were born independently, how were all those disks
going to be used without ZFS? It seems logical that the two be mated,
but AFAIK there is no hardware RAID available in Thumpers.
Was "normal" software RAID the plan? Treating each disk as a separate
mount point?
Just curious.
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