From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 16:35:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22522 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (gatekeeper.Alameda.net [207.90.181.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22501 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id QAA19695; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:34:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19981029163453.A15208@Alameda.net> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:34:54 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Karl Denninger Cc: Hallam Oaks , "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <19981029105316.A27621@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew N. Dodd on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:57:30AM -0500 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:57:30AM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > > Hmmm... I'll look into this. We haven't gotten tag reduction warnings > > on any of our NFS fileservers using these, nor on our INN machine > > (which uses them in RAID 0+1 config). > > You'd proably only see it in RAID5 mode or if you were -really- beating on > your array. Still, with that much memory they should make # of tags > supported a tunable. > > I really want to find a cheap CRD-5440 just for kicks. 1 host and 2 disk > channels is just right for a small server. Looking for something like that for a long time. Nothing found below $2k so far, which is far too much from my opinion. > > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | > | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message