[james_cowling]

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.

[kmod]

I think that's right

[james_cowling]

(kmod was the founding engineer on the project and the guy who came up with the name!)

[kmod]

The project was originally codenamed "s3box" and then changed for obvious reasons haha. I think Drew picked the name "Magic Pocket"