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NetFlix OpenConnect and FreeBSD
- Fzzr 13y agoThe most interesting things to me here are the fail-in-place design and the fact that they track FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE so closely. Both of these run counter to what I think of as the "corporate" way to do things, namely an aversion to any parts failing and to tracking something so subject to change.
- ajtaylor 13y agoSounds like a fun project, and a massive win for Netflix too once they get more of these machines in end ISP's. The thing that caught my eye was the massive difference between Rev C & D hardware. They went from 36 x 4TB to 14 x 960GB drives, reduced the chassis size from 4U to 1U, and doubled the 10GbE ports to 4. I'm guessing that the increased streaming speed (>20 Gb/sec!!!) offsets the reduction in storage space?