Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
Hi All,
This is a bit off-topic...but since the Thumper is the poster child
for ZFS I hope its not too off-topic.
What are the actual origins of the Thumper? I've heard varying stories
in word and print. It appears that the Thumper was the original server
Bechtolsheim designed at Kealia as a massive video server. However,
when we were first told about it a year ago through Sun contacts
"Thumper" was described as a part of a scalabe iSCSI storage system,
where Thumpers would be connected to a head (which looked a lot like a
pair of X4200s) via iSCSI that would then present the storage over
iSCSI and NFS. Recently, other sources mentioned they were told about
the same time that Thumper was part of the Honeycomb project.
That sounds more like the StorageTek 5320 systems.
So I was curious if anyone had any insights into the history/origins
of the Thumper...or just wanted to throw more rumors on the fire. ;-)
Personally, I see it as a modern version of the SSA-100 (also designed
by Andy)
-- richard
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