Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:42:11 -0800 (PST) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spatter.freebsd.org halted. Message-ID: <199703072142.NAA15100@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> In-Reply-To: <5346.857743163@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 7, 97 05:59:23 am"
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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
>
ok, 4x32 MB and 4GB disk from me.
Ulf.
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