On 2013-07-21 08:09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
The only realistic alternative to spending the money here would be if
some company donated the equivalent in hardware. It's not really
possible to code ourselves out of this one.
Well, we could make snapshot store binary deltas. That would kill some
Hi!
On 2013-07-21 08:09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Backups is 8 x 4T Seagate Constellation drives. Bytemark is 24 x 4T
Seagate Constellation drives. We get setup, hosting, power, etc
donated, so that is not part of the cost there.
Thanks; was this just a purchase of drives, or also a new
]] Steven Chamberlain
Hi!
On 2013-07-21 08:09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Backups is 8 x 4T Seagate Constellation drives. Bytemark is 24 x 4T
Seagate Constellation drives. We get setup, hosting, power, etc
donated, so that is not part of the cost there.
Thanks; was this just a
On 2013-07-22 14:50, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
There are practical problems with your suggestions, such as resizing the
RAID taking a very long time when we add a new disk (you're looking at
weeks of seriously reduced performance).
That seems like a limitation of software, at one of the lower
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
]] Steven Chamberlain
On 2013-07-22 14:50, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
There are practical problems with your suggestions, such as resizing the
RAID taking a very long time when we add a new disk (you're looking at
weeks of seriously reduced performance).
That seems like a limitation of
]] Steven Chamberlain
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
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:13:57PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
]] Steven Chamberlain
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
]] Steven Chamberlain
On 09/07/13 10:40, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
I approve the purchase of additional storage for backups (~2300 EUR) and
for our new hosting location at Bytemark, where snapshot.d.o will be moved
soon (~£7000).
May I ask some more details about this please; what
Hello,
On 09/07/13 10:40, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
I approve the purchase of additional storage for backups (~2300 EUR) and
for our new hosting location at Bytemark, where snapshot.d.o will be moved
soon (~£7000).
May I ask some more details about this please; what kind/amount of
storage can
On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 20:10 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
Hello,
On 09/07/13 10:40, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
I approve the purchase of additional storage for backups (~2300 EUR) and
for our new hosting location at Bytemark, where snapshot.d.o will be moved
soon (~£7000).
May I ask
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