From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:50:48 EST." References: <20120105124852.GA940@polynum.com> <20120105144810.182add7c@wks-ddc.exosec.local> <20120105151518.GB435@polynum.com> <74f17bd79e5a709683d94e72b4459623@lvoc.net> <20120105184858.87B0BB858@mail.bitblocks.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:57:24 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20120105195724.626D7B85B@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] venti and "contrib": RFC Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5604b754-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:50:48 EST erik quanstrom wrote: > > You'd save a bunch of energy if you only powered up venti > > disks once @ 4AM for a few minutes (and on demand when you > > look at /n/dump). Though venti might have fits! And the disks > > might too! So may be this calls for a two level venti? First > > to an SSD RAID and a much less frequent venti/copy to hard > > disks. > > > > venti doesn't have a "scrub" command, does it? zfs scrub was > > instrumental in warning me that I needed new disks. > > they're using coraid storage. all this is taken care of for them > by the SR appliance. When are you going to sell these retail?! The question was for venti though.