From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <193F972F-FBE8-45C0-A91F-4EDAA89C07A5@me.com> In-Reply-To: <193F972F-FBE8-45C0-A91F-4EDAA89C07A5@me.com> From: "James A. Robinson" Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:38:25 +0000 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c0882ee547fa1053eb2a7f2 Subject: Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a51ec4a4-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --94eb2c0882ee547fa1053eb2a7f2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ha, looks familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherDrive#/media/File:EtherDriveCluster.JPG Very neat, thank you for the description. But it's probably a bit more than I can fit into my closet. :-P On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:31 AM Brantley Coile wrote: > > SouthSuite=E2=80=99s production stack, plus a little. > > The top box, =E2=80=9Cwrens=E2=80=9D, is a diskless file server, work don= e by the Great > Quanstro. It=E2=80=99s Ken=E2=80=99s file server that uses ATA-over-Ether= net for its > storage. The bottom of the picture are two SRX storage shelves, =E2=80=9C= 300=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=99s = 9atom setup is mixed in > there as well. > > They will pry IL out of my cold, dead fingers. > > 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 fo= r > SouthSuite proper. > --94eb2c0882ee547fa1053eb2a7f2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Ha, looks familiar:


Very neat, thank you= for the description. =C2=A0 But it's probably a bit
more tha= n I can fit into my closet. :-P

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:31 AM Brantley Coile <brantleycoile@me.com> wrote:

<= div class=3D"gmail_msg">SouthSuite=E2=80=99s production stack, plus a littl= e.

The top box, =E2=80=9Cwrens=E2=80=9D, is a diskless file ser= ver, work done by the Great Quanstro. It=E2=80=99s Ken=E2=80=99s file serve= r that uses ATA-over-Ethernet for its storage. The bottom of the picture ar= e 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 a= uth 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.

They will pry IL out of = my cold, dead fingers.=C2=A0

Obviously this was all constructed, = for the most part, out of old Coraid SRX junk that was laying around. Dmr w= as the first equipment purchased for SouthSuite proper.
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