Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265337AbTF1TCz (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:02:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265338AbTF1TCz (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:02:55 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:41098 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265337AbTF1TCy (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:02:54 -0400 Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down From: Alan Cox To: Larry McVoy Cc: Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1056827655.6295.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 28 Jun 2003 20:14:16 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 15 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) - 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/