> > On 11/23/09 10:10 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> Lots of storage servers, outside the big corporate
>environment, can't
> afford full-blown redundancy. For many of us, we're
> just taking the first
> steps into using any kind of redundancy at all in
> disks for our file
> servers. Full enter
Your point is well taken, Frank, and I agree - there has to be some serious
design work for reliability. My background includes both hardware design for
reliability and field service engineering support, so the issues are not at all
foreign to me. Nor are the limits of something like a volunteer
On Mon, November 23, 2009 09:53, Frank Middleton wrote:
> On 11/23/09 10:10 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
>> Is there enough information available from system configuration
>> utilities
>> to make an automatic HCL (or unofficial HCL competitor) feasible?
>> Someone
>> could write an application p
On 11/23/09 10:10 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Is there enough information available from system configuration utilities
to make an automatic HCL (or unofficial HCL competitor) feasible? Someone
could write an application people could run which would report their
opinion on how well it works, p
On Sat, November 21, 2009 20:25, Al Hopper wrote:
>> And the last silly question. It seems to me that you'd have many, many
>> adopters if there was a real answer to what the HCL tries to be and
>> isn't - an answer to "if I buy this stuff, do I have a prayer of making
>> it work, or is there a s
Thank you Al! That's exactly the kind of information
I needed. I very much appreciate the help.
> It would be helpful to give us a broad description of
> what type of
> data you're planning on storing. Small files, large
> files, required
> capactity etc. and we can probably make some
> specif
-- Forwarded message --
From: Al Hopper
Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] The 100,000th beginner question about a zfs server
To: "R.G. Keen"
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:08 PM, R.G. Keen wrote:
>
> With apologies for clogging up the forum with beginner
