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		tarasglek 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard dr... but they have multiple head nodes, so its some distributed setup or just active/passive type thing?

nee1r 77 days ago | [–]

We have a custom barebones solution that uses a hashring to route the files!

hnav 78 days ago | | [–]

I'm guessing the client software (outside the dc) is responsible for enumerating all the nodes which all get their own IP.

toast0 77 days ago | [–]

I think each rack is one head node and several disk shelves (10?). No dual headed shelves.

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