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. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
