Re: bkbits.net is down

Alan Cox
2003-06-28T19:02:55Z

On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 04:19, Larry McVoy wrote:
> bkbits is 45GB of data and growing. Tapes are completely impractical,
> that's why we have hot spares.

Overhot spares included 8).

Hot spares wont save you always. I've worked at a telco where we lost
all the disks. the hosts and the hot spares to a PSU failure. The
replication has a lot going for it 8)