> >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.
Like I said, Andy was very interested in ZFS. ;) And ZFS in Thumper:
after all, what was ZFS going to do with that expensive but useless
hardware RAID controller? That's part of what made this union so
uncanny: despite being developed separately, each very much needed the
other...
- Bryan
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