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As part of the EMC World festivities, EMC's Isilon group is announcing a few new features available today -- as well as previewing their next release, dubbed Waikiki. Even with my obvious EMC bias, I can make a strong argument that OneFS is now clearly in a class of its own: architecture, functionality, robustness, performance, efficiency, etc. You could teach an advanced course in file system design and use OneFS as a perfect example. The gap between OneFS and everything else shows every sign of widening over time. The Isilon team now uses a fast-cadence development model, and we should be expecting regular drops of tick-tock functionality on a 6 month cadence going forward. Join me for a quick recap of "what's new" in the OneFS world -- there's a lot to like. The Basics The name "OneFS" is aptly chosen -- it delivers a single, real-deal scale-out filesystem (up to 20PB and 144 nodes). It is not an aggregation of file systems, nor is it an adaptation of dusty legacy code. It auto-scales, auto-balances and auto-manages. And does so on largely commodity hardware. People who have only known the traditional world of NAS filers express more than a little... |
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