From: David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:15:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4033F1FE.8090209@cantrell.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec10e038256861390380a3dd5cf660af@juice.thebigchoice.com>
matt@proweb.co.uk wrote:
> 5 a day seems a little more than expected but it depends on usage
> 1024 nodes x 5 drives = 5120 drives
> mtbf of 5 years
> 5120 drives fail every 1825 days
> 5120 / 1825 = 2.8 per day
If you're monitoring your disks' health (and you should be!) then you
get warnings well before the disk fails. If my income depended on my
machines' reliability, I'd be replacing disks at the slightest hint that
they might possibly be considering failure.
--
David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H. L. Mencken
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2004-02-17 20:06 dmr
2004-02-18 3:58 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-18 4:06 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-18 10:50 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-18 14:12 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 14:56 ` C H Forsyth
2004-02-18 15:03 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-19 4:17 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-02-18 15:08 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 15:28 ` matt
2004-02-18 16:38 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 17:06 ` matt
2004-02-18 23:15 ` David Cantrell [this message]
2004-02-18 23:25 ` matt
2004-02-18 23:42 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-19 3:43 ` Micah Stetson
2004-02-19 4:29 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-19 5:43 ` Micah Stetson
2004-02-19 5:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-18 20:15 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-02-19 9:03 ` boyd, rounin
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402180755420.19583-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov >
2004-02-18 17:08 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-18 23:27 ` ron minnich
2004-02-19 10:26 ` vic zandy
2004-02-19 14:47 ` ron minnich
2004-02-20 2:26 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-20 3:18 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 15:14 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-18 15:01 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-18 15:17 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-19 1:02 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-02-19 2:18 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-16 10:35 Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-02-16 10:53 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-16 11:11 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-16 11:13 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-16 15:35 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 15:44 ` C H Forsyth
2004-02-16 15:53 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 16:36 ` ron minnich
2004-02-16 16:49 ` matt
2004-02-16 17:04 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 17:03 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 19:08 ` 9nut
2004-02-17 0:15 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-17 0:32 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-02-19 18:50 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-17 1:35 ` 9nut
2004-02-16 15:58 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-16 16:31 ` ron minnich
2004-02-16 16:38 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-17 4:38 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-17 13:34 ` Brantley Coile
2004-02-17 14:26 ` matt
2004-02-17 14:33 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-17 14:58 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-17 15:03 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-17 15:14 ` Brantley Coile
2004-02-17 15:29 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-17 22:17 ` Steve Kilbane
2004-02-18 6:39 ` dmr
2004-02-18 8:13 ` 9nut
2004-02-18 10:02 ` Richard Miller
2004-02-16 17:36 ` 9nut
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