you can use baloney sandwiches and
make a luster cluster, buster!
8)
-g
On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Andrew Klaassen wrote:
I Wuz Wrong. I emailed the Backblaze guys, and
they're actually
> using a stock kernel and stock firmware. Here's
the response:
>
> "Regarding your questions below, we run the Debian
backport of
> 2.6.26, use stock firmware from Silicon Image, and the
back planes
> we actually get from a company called CFY in Taiwan
(not Silicon
> Image.)
>
> "We actually do plan to publish at least a few more
blog posts with
> more data & learnings about the pods. (Follow us
on Twitter if you
> want to be notified when we do...)
>
> "Also, we've received so many requests to buy the
storage pods in
> the last 24 hours despite providing all the specs that
we're
> contemplating where to do this somehow. If people are
interested in
> possibly doing this, they can email salescontact@backblaze.com
and
> we'll keep them abreast of whether we'll do that."
>
> I wonder if you could make a Lustre cluster of these
guys, or if
> there'd be problems with redundancy...
>
> 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, 7:24 AM
>> 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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