On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:05:44 +0200, "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Here's an interesting article I just read. It's just a device with a > bunch of ATA drives inside, up to 2T of storage. Probably anyone here > could produce something based on ReiserFS to compete with it... > > Storage start-up Avamar Technologies is launching an appliance this > week that it claims backs up network data more quickly and less > expensively than tape. > http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1014avamar.html?net > We've been thinking about something like that, using this extremely nifty trick:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Back in the old days (i.e. last week) when we were planning around Ext3, we were thinking of combining it with this product: http://www.shaolinmicro.com/product/cogofs/index.php The two combined, with ATA RAID, provide fast, redundent, incremental, compressed backups. Does ReiserFS support transparent compression? If not, are there any plans in this direction? Benchmarks I've seen in the past suggest that compressed file systems generally improve performance (especially when using something fast like LZOP) since CPUs are so fast--and of course for backups being able to store more on fewer disks is nice... Off-topic: anyone know of good vendors offering rackmount servers with room for lots of IDE drives? Looking at Dell, IBM, and Compaq they all use exclusively SCSI in there 2U rackmount servers.
