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by mey 12y ago

https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/software https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/software It looks like they are heavily redundant boxes with the goal of reducing field maintenance, running FreeBSD as the OS.

Alupis 12y ago
> running FreeBSD as the OS. Presumably for ZFS
- deleted 12y ago
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- howeyc 12y ago
  Actually it turns out they don't really have a need for most of the features of ZFS. So they don't use it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4
  - Alupis 12y ago
    Hmm, do you know which spot in the video they discuss that (it's a long video)? Seeing that they are using just controller cards instead of raid cards, and FreeBSD, it seems even if they were not using specific features of ZFS, the performance and other automatic things ZFS does to provide superior (compared to most (all?) other filesystems) data integrity and protection... they would be using it by default...
    - Thaxll 12y ago
      Performance is not a strength of ZFS.
    - howeyc 12y ago
      Why FreeBSD - 18:30 Why no ZFS - 21:30
    - justincormack 12y ago
      If a disk does they just stop using it and continue with less capacity.