On 1/24/07, Jonathan Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2007, at 09:25, Peter Eriksson wrote: >> too much of our future roadmap, suffice it to say that one should >> expect >> much, much more from Sun in this vein: innovative software and >> innovative >> hardware working together to deliver world-beating systems with >> undeniable >> economics. > > Yes please. Now give me a fairly cheap (but still quality) FC- > attached JBOD utilizing SATA/SAS disks and I'll be really happy! :-) Could you outline why FC attached instead of network attached (iSCSI say) makes more sense to you? It might help to illustrate the demand for an FC target I'm hearing instead of just a network target ..
I'm not generally for FC-attached storage, but we've documented here many times how the round trip latency with iSCSI hasn't been the perfect match with ZFS and NFS (think NAS). You need either IB or FC right now to make that workable. Some day though.. either with nvram-backed NFS or cheap 10Gig-E...
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