On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:16:51 Stroller wrote: > On 25 Nov 2008, at 21:35, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their > > new SSDs. > > The reason is that I'm getting sick and tired of having to explain and > > justify why the laws of physics prevent my girlfriend from being > > able to > > backup her 5T banking warehouse on the schedule the law of the > > country would > > like her to. There's a solution, but it's hackish and ugly and > > involves > > extremely careful management of LVM snapshots. This is simply way > > too much > > admin effort for what should really be a simple incremental backup > > process. > > Sounds like you want ZFS. > On Solaris. > On a little dedicated box which exports space via NFS.
No can do :-) But I didn't give you the full story. Those 5TB are stored in a column-based database on a raw device. The current setup is in production, in a commercial bank and is already delivering aggregated analytical data to the users. When I say "users" you should read "actuaries that determine the bank's business direction for the next several years" Microsoft will ditch Windows and fully embrace OSS long before that lot will entertain the mere idea of a platform change :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
