From: William Josephson <nowkjspm@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mass storage jukebox
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:50:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021017035030.GB96236@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0111cd980a794d0f7caff2055a36dfd6@plan9.bell-labs.com>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:15:00PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> Just buy a big disk and run a pseudo-worm.
> Optical media just doesn't make sense anymore.
Except for off-site backups, I'd second russ's
recommendations. The best argument I've heard
for the worm and the dump was an economic one:
by the time you've used all the available
storage, a newer, bigger one is on the market.
I think the same argument now applies to disks,
possibly with the mirror patch to the fs kernel
or using hardware raid. For off-site backups,
I've been using 700MB CDRs with dump9660. If
it weren't for Window's bone-headed determination
not to read ISO 9660 filesystems on DVD-R's I'd
have already replaced the CDs with DVDs (I keep
running away screaming from the UDF standard).
Once the 40-50GB DVD "standard" becomes a reality,
I think DVD+Venti may provide a reasonable
alternative to copying my data over the network
to several fileservers along the east coast.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-17 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 3:15 Russ Cox
2002-10-17 3:42 ` Andrew
2002-10-17 3:50 ` William Josephson [this message]
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2002-10-17 23:29 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-17 14:05 rog
2002-10-17 8:22 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-10-17 7:24 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-17 5:51 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-17 10:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-10-17 3:36 Geoff Collyer
2002-10-17 3:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-10-17 3:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-10-17 3:49 ` Andrew
2002-10-17 3:10 Andrew
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