Adam Levin wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Doug Hughes wrote:
>   
>> I think you have Isilon very confused with somebody else. They provide the 
>> whole package, disk/cpu storage combo nodes + onefs global filesystem with 
>> snapshotting, replication, quota management, high availability and deep node 
>> striping, etc. using infiniband as their back-end node interconnect. Perhaps 
>> you are thinking of Acopia?
>>     
>
> I'm kind of disappointed with how little functionality they really 
> provide, especially with the snapshots.  No cloning, no mountable snaps, 
> and they do copy-on-write (which I think I mentioned before).  They also 
> don't have any locking capability for compliance, which I think they're 
> going to need to really be an enterprise player in regulated industries 
> like pharma (current $WORK).
>
>   
I'll point out that ZFS also does copy on write, as does ext3, btrfs, 
and  Netapp WAFLl. If you're going to support a lot of snapshots, this 
is the sanest way to do it and maintain consistency in your filesystem 
copies.

I'm so blissfully free the ravages of compliance.
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