Foreword
History of ASM
by Bill Bridge, an architect at Oracle for over 18 years and the creator of ASM
The idea for Automatic Storage Management (ASM) first occurred to me in early 1996. A computer manufacturer that I was visiting gave me a presentation on a filesystem for video serving. The manufacturer's plan was to put one or two full-length movies on a single physical disk. The company would make a new copy of the movie for every 10 viewers. The next day I was thinking about this and realized that the plan could not work. I came to the conclusion that the only workable solution was to stripe the movies across a large number of disks with a very large stripe. I was not the first person to figure this out. That was the basic strategy behind ...
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