Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758901AbXFSPH4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:07:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755687AbXFSPHq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:07:46 -0400 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([72.242.190.170]:28959 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753780AbXFSPHp (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:07:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4677F14A.5060909@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:07:54 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: Brendan Conoboy , Lennart Sorensen , Neil Brown , Wakko Warner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: limits on raid References: <18034.479.256870.600360@notabene.brown> <18034.3676.477575.490448@notabene.brown> <20070616020320.GB2002@animx.eu.org> <18035.23867.576212.859440@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jun 2007 15:07:54.0435 (UTC) FILETIME=[9CCAE130:01C7B283] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.6.1039-15248.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--8.062400-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 21 david@lang.hm wrote: > one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array. Huh? You can only have 16 devices on a scsi bus, counting the host adapter. And I don't think you can even manage that much reliably with the newer higher speed versions, at least not without some very special cables. > yes I realize that there will be bottlenecks with this, the large > capacity is to handle longer history (it's going to be a 30TB circular > buffer being fed by a pair of OC-12 links) Building one of those nice packet sniffers for the NSA to install on AT&Ts network eh? ;) - 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/