On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:41:25 EDT erik quanstrom
wrote:
> > IIRC companies such as Panasas separate file names and other
> > metadata from file storage. One way to get a single FS
> > namespace that spans multiple disks or nodes for increasing
> > data redundancy, file size beyond the largest dis
> It all boils down to having to cope with individual units'
> limits and failures.
>
> If a file needs to be larger than the capacity of the largest
> disk, you stripe data across multiple disks. To handle disk
> failures you use mirroring or parity across multiple disks.
> To increase performan
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:05:16 EDT erik quanstrom wrote:
> > It all boils down to having to cope with individual units'
> > limits and failures.
> >
> > If a file needs to be larger than the capacity of the largest
> > disk, you stripe data across multiple disks. To handle disk
> > failures you u
On 18 Apr 2011, at 2:11 pm, Lucio De Re wrote:
One of these days they'll need installation checkboxes (a) to choose
optional features and (b) to choose different alternative features
that may clash with each other. One will need a university degree in
Linuxology to make educated decisions.
U
On 11 Apr 2011, at 2:51 pm, David Leimbach wrote:
I posted some on the wiki about how I got the guruplug working for
me...
How do you find things on the wiki? I came across this today. My
first thought was to look in the other_hardware page where I found
mention of the Shevaplug and Guru
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Guruplug/index.html
I spend 2 second to find it, but is true that the wiki have search issues.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
wrote:
>
> On 11 Apr 2011, at 2:51 pm, David Leimbach wrote:
>
>> I posted some on the wiki about how I got the
