That must be the data protection scheme. "Yeah, we're gonna give Doug a tour of our facilities today, so make sure you put some mustard and mayo on the baloney. Don't want to lose any data. Tomorrow Andrew's coming by, so stock up on some hot sauce."
Andrew
--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Douglas C. Atkinson Douglas@sevengroup.ca wrote:
And what if I don't like mustard or
Mayo?? Am I suppose to eat the sandwich also??
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----- Original Message -----
From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com
studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com
To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com
discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Sent: Fri Sep 04 08:04:34 2009
Subject: Re: Question about network deleting.
But what happens if someone eats one of the
sandwiches?? What happens to your data?
Andrew
--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Greg Whynott Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca
wrote:
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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
> >>> Make your browsing faster, safer, and
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