From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Scott McDermott <vaxerdec@frontiernet.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:07:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030628140700.GB6053@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030628040840.V9583@newbox.localdomain>
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:08:40AM -0400, Scott McDermott wrote:
> > bkbits is 45GB of data and growing. Tapes are completely
> > impractical, that's why we have hot spares.
>
> You've got to be kidding. My AIT2 tapes do 50G each,
> uncompressed. Those are years old technology. I have a
> Qualstar library only a few thousand dollars that has 20
> tape slots.
I haven't had much luck with tape, I've found them to be fairly unreliable
and slow over the years. I've moved to using disk as backup and it works.
It worked quite nicely in this case, I had a handful of places I needed
random access to in order to fix up the problem. Tape would have sucked.
> > > how about SCSI?
> >
> > The raid system that failed is SCSI.
>
> ok, well I stand corrected here, I thought you were using IDE.
It's a mix: 1 IDE, one 3ware SCSI/IDE, and one real SCSI.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-28 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-21 13:58 bkbits.net is down Larry McVoy
2003-06-21 19:09 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-22 0:26 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-23 5:37 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-25 1:33 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-25 17:26 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-25 17:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-26 13:33 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-26 21:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-26 21:21 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-26 22:25 ` Jonathan Lundell
2003-06-27 10:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-27 14:57 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 15:06 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-27 18:30 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-27 15:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-01 14:50 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-01 17:07 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-27 16:28 ` nick
2003-06-27 16:37 ` CaT
2003-06-27 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-27 22:12 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 22:15 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 8:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-28 13:41 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 23:27 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 23:51 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-27 23:55 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-06-28 0:16 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 0:51 ` Scott McDermott
2003-06-28 3:19 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 4:04 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-28 4:08 ` Joshua Penix
2003-06-28 4:21 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 5:42 ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-28 5:50 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 7:33 ` David Lang
2003-07-01 15:46 ` vlad
2003-06-28 8:08 ` Scott McDermott
2003-06-28 14:07 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-06-28 19:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-28 19:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28 19:18 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 19:38 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-06-28 19:47 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-28 20:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-06-28 20:55 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-28 21:00 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 21:06 ` Abramo Bagnara
2003-06-28 22:15 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-06-28 22:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-06-28 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-01 20:42 ` Zed Pobre
2003-06-29 6:24 ` Daniel Egger
2003-06-29 10:24 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-06-29 13:14 ` Daniel Egger
2003-06-30 15:16 ` Andrew Ryan
2003-06-29 15:08 ` Brian Jackson
2003-06-28 20:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-29 20:18 ` Pau Aliagas
2003-07-03 5:08 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-28 0:01 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-28 0:07 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-28 0:24 ` Mike Dresser
2003-06-26 21:35 ` Joel Jaeggli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-29 3:34 David Brownell
2003-06-29 3:42 Hemmann, Volker Armin
2005-04-12 2:17 Larry McVoy
2005-04-12 11:10 ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-04-12 12:33 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-04-12 12:38 ` Diego Calleja
2005-04-12 15:19 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-04-12 21:10 ` Toon van der Pas
2005-04-13 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-04-13 10:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
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