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monocasa
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WesternDigital/blb: Distributed object storage sys...
What does bare metal mean here, not virtualized?
It's hard to tell sometimes, what's one man's 'bare metal' is another man's abstraction layer.
regularfry
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I think in this case it means "there's not even a RAID card in the way".
linkmotif
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Maybe no filesystem, only block storage?
justincormack
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It says they currently use ext4 but might bypass later.
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It's hard to tell sometimes, what's one man's 'bare metal' is another man's abstraction layer.