Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265037AbTF1DFK (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:05:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265038AbTF1DFK (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:05:10 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:18892 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265037AbTF1DFH (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:05:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:19:20 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Scott McDermott Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030627145727.GB18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627163720.GF357@zip.com.au> <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 22 On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:51:40PM -0400, Scott McDermott wrote: > Larry McVoy on Fri 27/06 17:16 -0700: > > I don't know if you all realize this but at one point we > > had corrupted data in several repositories and the backups > > were also shot. > > ever hear of tapes? bkbits is 45GB of data and growing. Tapes are completely impractical, that's why we have hot spares. > how about SCSI? The raid system that failed is SCSI. -- --- 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/