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> You probably gave bad advice. By the time Reddit existed, you could have just gotten an netapp filer. They had higher availability than most data centers back
by throw0101d 1y ago
> You probably gave bad advice. By the time Reddit existed, you could have just gotten an netapp filer. They had higher availability than most data centers back then, so “the NFS server hung” wouldn’t be anywhere near the top of your “things that cause outages or interfere with engineering” list.
Or distributed NFS filers like Isilon or Panasas: any particular node can be rebooted and its IPs are re-distributed between still-live node. At my last job we used one for HPC and it stored >11PB with minimal hassle. OS upgrades can be done in a rolling fashion so client service is not interrupted.
Newer NFS vendors like Vast Data have all-NVME backends (Isilon can have a mix if you need both fast and archival storage: tiering can happen on (e.g.) file age).