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From: david@lang.hm
Subject: Re: limits on raid
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:52:04 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Brendan Conoboy wrote:

> david@lang.hm wrote:
>>  yes, sorry, ultra 320 wide.
>
> Exactly how many channels and drives?

one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array.

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)

it appears that my big mistake was not understanding what /proc/mdstat is 
telling me.

David Lang