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Re:Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System by james_cowling on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @08:11PM (#35982788)
We designed and built the system almost completely ground-up, all the way down to the disk scheduler, but yeah we probably took the term OSD from Ceph.
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Re:Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System by kmod on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:23PM (#35983826)
I think that's right
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Re:Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System by james_cowling on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:02PM (#35993326)
(kmod was the founding engineer on the project and the guy who came up with the name!)
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Re:Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System by kmod on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:08PM (#35994089)
The project was originally codenamed "s3box" and then changed for obvious reasons haha. I think Drew picked the name "Magic Pocket"
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