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		brcmthrowaway 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Netwo... How does Isilon compare to nfs?

green-salt 4 months ago [–]

Isilon has their own filesystem that stores the data across multi-node clusters, you then export that out over NFS/SMB/S3, and the nodes load balance the I/O across the cluster.

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