Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 06.06.12 03:16, Scott Long wrote: [...] Each disk has its own UFS+J filesystem, except for the SSDs that are mirrored together with gmirror. The SSDs hold the OS image and cache some of the busiest content. The other disks hold nothing but the audio and video files for our content

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:09 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 06.06.12 03:16, Scott Long wrote: [...] Each disk has its own UFS+J filesystem, except for the SSDs that are mirrored together with gmirror. The SSDs hold the OS image and cache some of the busiest content. The other disks hold

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Scott Long wrote: Yes, we are indeed using FreeBSD at Netflix! For those who are interested, I recently moved from Yahoo to Netflix to help support FreeBSD for them, and I'm definitely impressed with what is going on there. Other than a few small changes, we're

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Hi Scott, [...] I wanted to follow up on this briefly. I jumped the gun a little bit in talking about this publicly, since the Openconnect website wasn't fully globally online at the time. It is now, so anyone who previously had trouble getting to it should try again at

RE: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-06 Thread Andresen, Jason R.
From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ian Smith On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Kurt Jaeger wrote: I didn't see a link to this information in the e-mail below. I found this info detailed here:

Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Benjamin Francom
I just saw this, and thought I'd share: Open Connect Appliance Software Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances. When designing the Open Connect Appliance Software, we focused on these

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Dan Daley
Subject: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD I just saw this, and thought I'd share: Open Connect Appliance Software Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances. When designing the Open

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! I didn't see a link to this information in the e-mail below. I found this info detailed here: https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software If you come from an IP range outside of netflix' footprint, that page is not available. But have a look at that PDF, comes from their

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Benjamin Francom wrote: I just saw this, and thought I'd share: Open Connect Appliance Software Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances. When designing

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread David Magda
On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the OpenConnect web site. Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places (Google, Facebook), is there any particular reason why FreeBSD was chosen

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Dan Daley
Maybe their knowledge of Linux drove them to use FreeBSD. Sorry, couldn't resist ;) On 06/05/2012 19:42, David Magda wrote: On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the OpenConnect web site. Out of curiosity,

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:42 PM, David Magda wrote: On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the OpenConnect web site. Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many other places (Google, Facebook), is

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Kurt Jaeger wrote: I didn't see a link to this information in the e-mail below. I found this info detailed here: https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software If you come from an IP range outside of netflix' footprint, that page is not