Shouldn't it be:

/dev/bread0

/dev/baloney0

/dev/bread1

;)

From: studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com [mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-bounces@studiosysadmins.com] On Behalf Of Klaus Steden Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:01 AM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com; discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: RE: Question about network deleting.

Only if they're presented as LUNs ... /dev/baloney0, /dev/baloney1, etc.

-----Original Message----- From: Greg Whynott [mailto:Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca] Sent: Fri 9/4/2009 7:47 AM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: Question about network deleting.

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-chea p-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 easier with the >> new >>> Internet ExplorerR 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now >> for >>> Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ >>> __ >>> StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list >>> StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@studiosysadmins.com >>> http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> >> Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! >> >> http://www.flickr.com/gift/ >> __ >> StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list >> StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@studiosysadmins.com >> http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss >> > > >
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