From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: limits on raid Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:07:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4677F14A.5060909@cfl.rr.com> References: <18034.479.256870.600360@notabene.brown> <18034.3676.477575.490448@notabene.brown> <20070616020320.GB2002@animx.eu.org> <18035.23867.576212.859440@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm Cc: Brendan Conoboy , Lennart Sorensen , Neil Brown , Wakko Warner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids david@lang.hm wrote: > one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array. Huh? You can only have 16 devices on a scsi bus, counting the host adapter. And I don't think you can even manage that much reliably with the newer higher speed versions, at least not without some very special cables. > yes I realize that there will be bottlenecks with this, the large > capacity is to handle longer history (it's going to be a 30TB circular > buffer being fed by a pair of OC-12 links) Building one of those nice packet sniffers for the NSA to install on AT&Ts network eh? ;)