Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power consumption. It seems that deduplication is at the file level. The product is initially based on Sun hardware (Sunfire 4540) and uses OpenSolaris and a modified version of ZFS. I am surprised to first hear about this in EE Times rather than on this list. Bob =====================================Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:> Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power > consumption. It seems that deduplication is at the file level. The > product is initially based on Sun hardware (Sunfire 4540) and uses > OpenSolaris and a modified version of ZFS. > > I am surprised to first hear about this in EE Times rather than on > this list. >maybe you didn''t grok it.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:> Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power > consumption. It seems that deduplication is at the file level. The > product is initially based on Sun hardware (Sunfire 4540) and uses > OpenSolaris and a modified version of ZFS. > > I am surprised to first hear about this in EE Times rather than on > this list. > > Bob > =====================================> Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >It''d been brought up a couple times in the past, but their information is so vague it doesn''t give a whole lot to discuss =/ -- Brent Jones brent at servuhome.net
See: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:25:59PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:> Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power > consumption. It seems that deduplication is at the file level. The > product is initially based on Sun hardware (Sunfire 4540) and uses > OpenSolaris and a modified version of ZFS. > > I am surprised to first hear about this in EE Times rather than on > this list. > > Bob > =====================================> Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss-- Eric Schrock, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock
On 23.09.08 21:25, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:> Today while reading EE Times I read an article about a startup company > named Greenbytes which will be offering a system called Cypress which > supports deduplication and arrangement of data to minimize power > consumption. It seems that deduplication is at the file level. The > product is initially based on Sun hardware (Sunfire 4540) and uses > OpenSolaris and a modified version of ZFS. > > I am surprised to first hear about this in EE Times rather than on > this list.Actually it was discussed here earlier in topic titled "Do you grok it?" victor
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote:> See: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the GreenBytes link without saying what it was I completely ignored it. I assumed that it would be Windows-centric content that I can not view since of course I am a dedicated Solaris user. I see that someone else mentioned that the content does not work for Solaris users. As a result I ignored the entire discussion as being about some silly animation of gumballs. Bob =====================================Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:04:34PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 > > I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the > GreenBytes link without saying what it was I completely ignored it. > I assumed that it would be Windows-centric content that I can not view > since of course I am a dedicated Solaris user. I see that someone > else mentioned that the content does not work for Solaris users. As a > result I ignored the entire discussion as being about some silly > animation of gumballs.Don''t apologize - its not your fault! BTW: I have exactly the same problem/assumption ... Have fun, jel. -- Otto-von-Guericke University http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ Department of Computer Science Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg, Germany Tel: +49 391 67 12768
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: > > >> See: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 >> > > I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the > GreenBytes link without saying what it was I completely ignored it. > I assumed that it would be Windows-centric content that I can not view > since of course I am a dedicated Solaris user. I see that someone > else mentioned that the content does not work for Solaris users. As a > result I ignored the entire discussion as being about some silly > animation of gumballs. >So you admit that you didn''t grok it? :-) Dude poured in a big bag of gumballs, but they were de-duped, so the gumball machine only had a few gumballs. -- richard
Richard Elling wrote:> Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Eric Schrock wrote: >> >> >> >>> See: >>> >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=73740&tstart=0 >>> >>> >> I must apologize for anoying everyone. When Richard Elling posted the >> GreenBytes link without saying what it was I completely ignored it. >> I assumed that it would be Windows-centric content that I can not view >> since of course I am a dedicated Solaris user. I see that someone >> else mentioned that the content does not work for Solaris users. As a >> result I ignored the entire discussion as being about some silly >> animation of gumballs. >> >> > > So you admit that you didn''t grok it? :-) > Dude poured in a big bag of gumballs, but they were de-duped, > so the gumball machine only had a few gumballs. >I won''t admit I didn''t grok it. I will admit however, (and this may be worse) that even though I do have a windows laptop, with QuickTime installed, I couldn''t get the damn thing to work in Firefox. So I couldn''t see it. -Kyle> -- richard > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Richard Elling wrote:> > So you admit that you didn''t grok it? :-) > Dude poured in a big bag of gumballs, but they were de-duped, > so the gumball machine only had a few gumballs. >When my data is deduped that''s a GoodThing (other than my unanswered query to them about how they handle zfs copies=2) but when my candy supply suddenly shrinks, I assume there are Rats or Mice about .... I thought it was a lovely bit of art, completely worthless as advertising (as it neither made sense, nor made me want to learn more about them). Fortunately they triggered a google news alert so I read their announcement when it came out and that was helpful ;> -- Keith H. Bierman khbkhb at gmail.com | AIM kbiermank 5430 Nassau Circle East | Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 | 303-997-2749 <speaking for myself*> Copyright 2008