From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware support for the fs kernel
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:11:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030312131122.K24866@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303121052.h2CAqmD13517@highwire.stanford.edu>; from James A. Robinson on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:52:48AM -0800
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:52:48AM -0800, James A. Robinson wrote:
>
> Someone was pointing out the Nexsan ATABeast product, which advertises
> 13.4TB of disk starting at $40K (one assumes the 10.4TB they also
> advertise would be cheaper). It may not be blazingly fast disk,
> but it's probably faster than optical, and is fairly cheap. Just in
> the context of an ordinary IT operation, it does seem like this kind
> of hardware would replace optical jukeboxes, and next to it you would
> have an ordinary tape box for absolute disaster recovery (or you have
> an off-site mirror of the disk array).
>
That covers Geoff's needs, in a fashion (and at a price, seeing as
you need two of them :-)
But it doesn't solve the problem of replication, which in fact
arises even in the scenario above. In addition, replication is
multi-directional, although Geoff may not be interested in this
aspect.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-12 11:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-10 13:13 [9fans] E attribute in libsec/port/x509.c Claude BONFANTI
2003-03-11 17:41 ` Eric Grosse
2003-03-12 9:33 ` [9fans] hardware support for the fs kernel Conor Williams
2003-03-12 9:52 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-03-12 10:01 ` Lucio De Re
2003-03-12 10:12 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-03-12 10:28 ` Lucio De Re
2003-03-12 17:15 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-13 7:59 ` Lucio De Re
2003-03-13 15:45 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-14 5:06 ` Lucio De Re
2003-03-12 10:52 ` James A. Robinson
2003-03-12 11:11 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2003-03-12 22:59 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-03-12 23:20 ` Jack Johnson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-21 2:01 [9fans] 9 in the news matt
2002-09-21 11:16 ` Lucio De Re
2002-09-21 15:21 ` Arnaud SAHUGUET
2002-09-21 15:57 ` Jack Johnson
2002-09-21 16:01 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-21 21:55 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-10-01 12:45 ` matt
2002-10-03 1:47 ` [9fans] did a replica/pull, now "mk 'CONF='pc" fails? Eric Dorman
2002-03-27 20:12 [9fans] sam and ssh Geoff Collyer
2002-03-27 20:18 ` Lucio De Re
2002-03-27 20:31 ` Scott Schwartz
[not found] <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
2001-04-23 5:53 ` [9fans] PGP Lucio De Re
2001-04-23 6:01 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-04-23 16:13 ` Dan Cross
2002-03-27 18:14 ` [9fans] sam and ssh Lucio De Re
2002-03-27 19:08 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-03-28 1:28 ` Micah Stetson
2002-03-27 20:15 ` Lucio De Re
2002-03-27 20:22 ` Lucio De Re
2002-03-27 20:36 ` Lucio De Re
2002-03-27 20:41 ` Lucio De Re
2002-04-08 12:47 ` peter huang
2002-03-10 23:59 [9fans] samuel Alex Danilo
2002-03-11 0:07 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-11 7:44 ` Steve Kilbane
2002-03-11 0:45 ` Andrew Simmons
2002-03-11 10:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-07 21:34 [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) anothy
2001-11-08 5:30 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 5:43 ` George Michaelson
2001-11-08 7:07 ` Jim Choate
2001-11-08 7:40 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 10:40 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 20:15 ` Quinn Dunkan
2001-11-08 5:59 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-11-08 7:16 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-29 4:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-09 13:18 Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp) bwc
2001-10-10 8:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-10 10:02 ` Browsers (was: Re: Plan 9 annoyances (was: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp)) Lucio De Re
2001-10-10 18:38 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-10-11 8:31 ` John Murdie
2001-10-11 17:26 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-10-12 6:31 ` [9fans] Re: Browsers Boyd Roberts
2001-10-07 16:23 [9fans] mv vs cp jmk
2001-10-08 4:28 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 4:49 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 6:10 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 6:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 6:49 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 7:00 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 7:13 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 7:44 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 7:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-08 6:54 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 7:10 ` George Michaelson
2001-10-08 8:28 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 9:51 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 10:30 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-09 9:03 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 9:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-09 15:58 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 16:43 ` davel
2001-10-10 8:49 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-10-10 8:49 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10 9:48 ` davel
2001-10-11 9:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-11 10:54 ` davel
2001-10-12 9:19 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-09 16:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 8:50 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-10 10:29 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-10 1:05 ` erik quanstrom
2001-10-10 2:15 ` david presotto
2001-10-10 4:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2001-10-10 8:30 ` davel
2001-10-08 10:34 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-08 9:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-08 11:13 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-08 9:42 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-08 17:43 ` [9fans] rewriting paths [was: mv vs cp] Richard Uhtenwoldt
2001-08-18 7:38 [9fans] Sam question nigel
2001-08-18 8:31 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-08-20 8:57 ` Luis Fernandes
2001-08-20 11:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-18 11:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 6:57 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-19 10:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 11:13 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-19 12:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 12:23 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-19 16:17 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-08-19 20:57 ` Dan Cross
2000-11-13 20:19 [9fans] AFS-client for Plan9 - ? anothy
2000-11-14 9:58 ` Wladimir Mutel
[not found] ` <mwg@alkar.net>
2000-11-14 22:33 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-14 22:41 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-14 22:41 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-14 22:51 ` Boyd Roberts
[not found] ` <boyd@planete.net>
2000-11-14 23:02 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-20 10:55 ` Chris Locke
2000-11-20 10:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-11-20 13:24 ` Boyd Roberts
[not found] ` <viro@math.psu.edu>
2000-11-14 23:00 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-14 23:15 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-14 23:54 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-15 0:31 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-15 0:38 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-01 20:47 [9fans] /n/smtp Russ Cox
2000-11-01 21:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-01 22:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-01 22:10 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-11-01 22:23 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-07-12 9:04 [9fans] file server problems ianb
2000-07-13 1:33 ` Eric Dorman
2000-07-13 2:28 ` Eric Dorman
2000-07-13 4:15 ` Lucio De Re
2000-07-13 4:33 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-07-13 12:19 ` Lucio De Re
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