From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) From: Brantley Coile In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:39:50 -0400 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: <65A95727-540E-4110-BF6F-8DA41E480CBA@me.com> References: <193F972F-FBE8-45C0-A91F-4EDAA89C07A5@me.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a52538de-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 :) You would be a popular with your significant other as I was with my wife = when I had a PDP-11 in the living room. > On Oct 12, 2016, at 6:38 PM, James A. Robinson = wrote: >=20 > Ha, looks familiar: >=20 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive > = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive#/media/File:EtherDriveCluster.JPG= >=20 > Very neat, thank you for the description. But it's probably a bit > more than I can fit into my closet. :-P >=20 > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:31 AM Brantley Coile = wrote: >=20 > SouthSuite=E2=80=99s production stack, plus a little. >=20 > The top box, =E2=80=9Cwrens=E2=80=9D, is a diskless file server, work = done by the Great Quanstro. It=E2=80=99s Ken=E2=80=99s file server that = uses ATA-over-Ethernet for its storage. The bottom of the picture are = two SRX storage shelves, =E2=80=9C300=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9C200=E2=80=9D, = that are mirrors of each other. The machine =E2=80=9Cdmr=E2=80=9D is our = auth server, and =E2=80=9Cresearch=E2=80=9D is our CPU server. Eric=E2=80=99= s 9atom setup is mixed in there as well. >=20 > They will pry IL out of my cold, dead fingers.=20 >=20 > Obviously this was all constructed, for the most part, out of old = Coraid SRX junk that was laying around. Dmr was the first equipment = purchased for SouthSuite proper.