Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265108AbTF1Hy0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:54:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265110AbTF1HyZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:54:25 -0400 Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.131.34]:16310 "EHLO relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265108AbTF1HyZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 03:54:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 04:08:40 -0400 From: Scott McDermott To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Larry McVoy Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628040840.V9583@newbox.localdomain> 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> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com>; from lm@bitmover.com on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:19:20PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 723 Lines: 22 Larry McVoy on Fri 27/06 20:19 -0700: > > ever hear of tapes? > > bkbits is 45GB of data and growing. Tapes are completely > impractical, that's why we have hot spares. You've got to be kidding. My AIT2 tapes do 50G each, uncompressed. Those are years old technology. I have a Qualstar library only a few thousand dollars that has 20 tape slots. > > how about SCSI? > > The raid system that failed is SCSI. ok, well I stand corrected here, I thought you were using IDE. - 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/