On 2013-07-22 15:49, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > It's not, it's a limitation of resizing a raid and that requiring about > a billion seeks across the disk surface.
I didn't realise it was hardware RAID. If for example it is possible to create multiple, smaller hardware RAIDs over time, then maybe all that is needed is a small code change to snapshot.d.o to spread files across multiple mountpoints, which would surely be worth it. But it seems to me that software RAID, probably running free Debian software, can someday reduce need of some hardware, if it were reliable, performed well and could be managed easily. (It seems DSA are now doing this for compute resources, through OpenStack and ganeti). I just like the idea that Debian can strive to develop such things for its own infrastructure needs. I think storage makes for a good long-term project, but there may be others that could yield higher savings. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51ed43e4.9050...@pyro.eu.org