Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:18:47 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down |
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 08:14:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 04:19, Larry McVoy wrote: > > bkbits is 45GB of data and growing. Tapes are completely impractical, > > that's why we have hot spares. > > Overhot spares included 8). > > Hot spares wont save you always. I've worked at a telco where we lost > all the disks. the hosts and the hot spares to a PSU failure. The > replication has a lot going for it 8)
Yup. We're looking at having replicas in at least 2, maybe 3 locations, one in San Francisco, one in Texas, and one in either North Carolina or in Oregon. That should cover our butt for a while. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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