Hello David,

Thursday, January 25, 2007, 1:47:57 AM, you wrote:

DM> 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

DM> If Thumper and ZFS were born independently, how were all those disks  
DM> going to be used without ZFS? It seems logical that the two be mated,
DM> but AFAIK there is no hardware RAID available in Thumpers.

DM> Was "normal" software RAID the plan? Treating each disk as a separate
DM> mount point?

I guess Linux was considered probably with LVM or something else.

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