From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:54:40 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnik In-reply-to: <4AA0DFDE.2090801@maht0x0r.net> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: References: <0a2891b0ca461335221f7788685fca19@quanstro.net> <4AA0DFDE.2090801@maht0x0r.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 64f4ae38-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:37 AM, matt wrote: > I concur with Erik, I specced out a 20tb server earlier this year, > matching the throughputs hits you in the wallet. > > I'm amazed they are using pci-e 1x , it's kind of naive > > see what the guy from sun says > > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5899-Some-perspective-to-this-DIY-storage-server-mentioned-at-Storagemojo.html Joerg is smart. But he feels defensive about ZFS. Yet, he is smart enough to say: YMMV at the very end of his post. Come on, that's the same argument people were using trying to sell Google big honking SPARC boxes way back in '99. They were missing the point back then, I'm sure quite a few of them are going to miss the point now. Thanks, Roman.