ZFS obn FreeBSD hardware model for 48 or 96 sata3 paths...

[Jeremy Chadwick]

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 <insert gigantic technical
ordeal that touches on 6 different subsystems/pieces of FreeBSD and
cannot easily be solved>".

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.

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