From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 07:52:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5BD106564A for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D0B8FC08 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.72]) by qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id avne1h0041ZXKqc56vsD02; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:52:13 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id avsB1h00X1t3BNj3hvsCgh; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:52:13 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6AD0F102C31; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:52:10 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Julian Elischer Message-ID: <20110920075210.GA8194@icarus.home.lan> References: <72A6ABD6-F6FD-4563-AB3F-6061E3DD9FBF@digsys.bg> <1316458811.88701.YahooMailClassic@web121208.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20110919223653.0000702b@unknown> <4E77E8D6.1050108@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E77E8D6.1050108@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Jason Usher , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS obn FreeBSD hardware model for 48 or 96 sata3 paths... X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:52:13 -0000 On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 06:13:58PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > jason, you still haven't said what the reason for all this is.. > speed, capacity, both or some other reason.. > (or if you did, I missed it). While in my case I'm still trying to figure out Jason's actual goal. I get the feeling it's an attempt at avoiding use of, say, a Netapp filer (read: dedicated hardware and software on a device built to do and scale to the degree the OP wants) and the reasons are unknown. I'm also dreading all of the support mails on the list we'd see 2-3 months after such a beast was built. "It works!!!" followed by 2-3 months of silence, then "Hi, I have a problem ". The closest pre-built thing I can find to a white-box system would be iXSystems' Titan 445J, but the *actual hardware* used in the storage subsystem are unknown, ditto with tons of specification details: http://www.ixsystems.com/ix/storage/titan-jbod/titan-445j This comes no where near what the OP stated he wants though, in numerous regards. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |