Reading List, 6/10/2008, Afternoon Edition at thinking sysadmin

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Reading List, 6/10/2008, Afternoon Edition

Jonathan’s Blog: Anything But a Flash in the Pan – Jonathan Schwartz on Sun’s soon-to-be-released (late this year) flash drives. Quote: “ZFS will transparently incorporate Flash into the storage hierarchy of a running system, using the microprocessor cache for the most performance sensitive tasks, DRAM for the next, then Flash, then disk (then ultimately tape).” Speaking of tiered storage, I wonder how flash drives would work within a SAM-QFS implementation – and if SAM-QFS is destined to wither in the shadow of ZFS: Sure it’s open source now, but where is it going these days?

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June 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

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