Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265432AbTF1WAx (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:00:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265434AbTF1WAx (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:00:53 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:43754 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265432AbTF1WAw (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:00:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:15:07 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: Alan Cox Cc: Larry McVoy , Scott McDermott , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Message-ID: <20030628221507.GI841@gallifrey> References: <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> <20030628191847.GB8158@work.bitmover.com> <20030628193857.GH841@gallifrey> <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Chocolate: 70 percent or better cocoa solids preferably X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.18 (i686) X-Uptime: 23:12:22 up 1 day, 3:29, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.14 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1287 Lines: 28 * Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 20:38, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > Tapes are a pain; but at the type of 40GB range is it worth considering > > a pile of external USB/Firewire hard drives? > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is performance > - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world. Hmm - why should it suck so badly? Shouldn't USB 2 (yes I mean the 480Mbps) manage 40MByte/s+ ? Disc struck me as so nice in the sense that its a file system and you don't need extra software, and that the recovery time is near instant. (Incidentally - putting it in a RAID1 with a main disc would seem an interesting option and just letting RAID take a copy of the file system) Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - 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/