Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265352AbTF1TEq (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:04:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265358AbTF1TEq (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:04:46 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:50389 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265352AbTF1TEo (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:04:44 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:18:47 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Alan Cox Cc: Larry McVoy , Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628191847.GB8158@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Alan Cox , 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> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> <1056827655.6295.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1056827655.6295.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> 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: 964 Lines: 22 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/