Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 05:59:23 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spatter.freebsd.org halted. Message-ID: <5346.857743163@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Mar 1997 13:02:13 %2B0100." <9703071202.AA13413@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
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> where are the CTM deltas going to be generated now ? Not sure yet. > what's a new disk cost ? I might make a contribution to the Inc. :) Actually, I've had enough offers of replacement disks that I'm starting to think seriously of widening this to encompass another long-standing requirement of the project, namely our need for a nice fileserver class machine to upgrade freefall as "pointbox" of the project. The machine which is now actually freefall really needs to retire and become a 2nd-tier service machine, it being an overloaded P5/90 with aging disks and insufficient memory. It's really done a great job over the last 3+ years, but lack of sufficient disk and compute resources has really limited the kinds of things which can be done with strictly project resources - we don't even have enough diskspace to keep both the OpenBSD and NetBSD sources online right now. If I could get various hardware donors here to commit to the following component list: 1 P6/200 CPU w/256K cache 1 Intel Venus Motherboard 4 16MB SIMMS 1 Adaptec 2940 or NCR/Symbios PCI controller. 1 Compex ENET32/PCI ethernet controller or similar DC21041 based NIC. I think the rest could be shuffled together here at Walnut Creek CDROM. I've already got 3 tentative offers for replacement 4GB drives, and if even 2 of them pan out then we would have a pretty good start. Since we'd be pretty much cleaning house all around in such a scenario, we also have a 4Gb drive in thud which could possibly be swapped for a smaller drive and freefall's new Atlas-II has proven to be a little problematic there and probably needs to be swapped out anyway. Assuming that freefall's drive worked better in a different configuration (and that wouldn't surprise me), that would bring us up to 16GB of storage, a pretty healthy fileserver and possibly one capable of also doing some interesting CCD things to speed up access to the CVS master repository (assuming that ccd is currently trusted enough for these kinds of applications, of course :). If everyone who's committed to providing a disk actually does, and that would give me 6 4GB drives including the 2 already here, then I would also hit Walnut Creek CDROM up for this fileserver chassis which they just happen to have sitting around. :) The machine which is now freefall could become a combined spatter/thud sort of box, a P5/90 still being quite a bit nicer for actually doing things than a 486/DX2 (which both spatter and thud are). We've already proven that the hardware is reliable, after all, and the ex-freefall has 6Gb of usable space it could take with it for mirroring and archival purposes. Having freefall be a P6/200 with more memory and lots of disk online would be a real boost and something I've dreamed of doing for a long time. Any nice donors out there share in this dream? :-) Jordan
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