Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:45:24AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Once again, we tell mirrors that they can mirror only i386, and that > > would be fine. We already have mirrors that mirror some arches and > > not others, right? > > Currentl

Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-24 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:45:24AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Once again, we tell mirrors that they can mirror only i386, and that > would be fine. We already have mirrors that mirror some arches and > not others, right? Currently we have a good, solid mirror infrastructure. I can expe

Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Benoit Peccatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you sometime think at other people's bilities ? > I'm sure big mirrors don't care, how about those who can't afford > the expense ? Either because their disks are already full and they > don't wan't to buy new ones or because buying new ones may me

Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) | 36GB disks? Why buy 36GB disks when you can buy big ones? See, the | problem here is that things are in such frequent motion, that what | seemed like a big disk once is now small. 36GB is a tiny disk. When you are running an ftp server or similar, seek time is more

Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Please respect my Mail-Followup-To: header. On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:07:26PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > 36GB disks? Why buy 36GB disks when you can buy big ones? See, the > problem here is that things are in such frequent motion, that what seemed > like a big disk once is now small.

Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-22 Thread Benoit Peccatte
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 17:07, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Say I have 6 36GB disks which cost me $100 apiece (USD600 / 216GB USD2.78 > > per gigabyte). Naturally, I put them in a RAID-5 array, for 180GB usable > > space. Now we're at $3.33/GB, not

Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Say I have 6 36GB disks which cost me $100 apiece (USD600 / 216GB USD2.78 > per gigabyte). Naturally, I put them in a RAID-5 array, for 180GB usable > space. Now we're at $3.33/GB, not counting filesystem overhead. This is a > realistic server config

Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

2002-11-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:03:40AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Nov/21, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > > > Current cost of hard disk is something between $1.00 and $1.50 per > > > gigabyte. > > > > I may be wrong, but I ass