Oh, and they also thank a couple of engineers at Silicon Image "who helped us debug SATA protocol problems and loaned us 10 different SATA cards to test against".
That's the kind of testing I'm talking about.
What's the chance they're running custom SATA drivers, what with all that SATA protocol debugging? That's the kind of thing that it's hard for a small studio (or even a large one) to do. What's the chance that those drivers are going to make it back into the mainstream kernel? (One can only hope.)
Andrew
--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Andrew Klaassen clawsoon@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Andrew Klaassen clawsoon@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Question about network deleting.
To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Received: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 7:19 AM
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Klaus Steden
klaus-s@moving-picture.com
wrote:
You could try one of these ...
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
I've been thinking about building something like that, but
I've had a hard time finding good info about port-multiplier
backplanes.? The good news is that Backblaze seems to
have a working, well-tested config using port multipliers;
the bad news is that they thank "James Lee at Chyang Fun
Industries in Taiwan for customizing SATA boards to simplify
our design".? I probably don't have the buying power
clout to get James Lee - as nice a guy as he might be - to
do that for me.? (Although... if they have a few extras
left over from the Backblaze build...)
Andrew
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