EMERGENCY MEETING: Yuval at The Chapel Tuesday 2pm-8pm

2009-06-07 Thread Léon Brocard
יובל קוג'מן / Yuval Kogman / nothingmuch / Mooser and general CPAN master will be in London on Tuesday on transit between two flights. We shall be going to a pub near Paddington on Tuesday afternoon/evening and you should come too: The Chapel 48 Chapel Street, London, NW1 5DP

RE: Hardware Reliability

2009-06-07 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, Most of our server drives our mirrored, so I wasn't really thinking about the failure of individual drives. I was thinking about a more serious failure which might take out the whole disk array or server. The starting point then is How often will a failure occur if we keep our kit new (ie

RE: Hardware Reliability

2009-06-07 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 12:13 +0100, Duncan Garland wrote: I wonder if the problem can be approached from the other end. I wonder if there is a design standard (ISO or such like) which states that a manufacturer should aim for an MTBF of whatever. I'll let you know if I find anything.