Heh. The original definition of "I" was inexpensive. Was never meant to be "independent". Guess that changed by vendors. The idea all along was to take inexpensive hardware and use software to turn it into a reliable system.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=50214 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf <snip> Regarding the 2.5" laptop drives, do the inherent error detection properties >> of ZFS subdue any concerns over a laptop drive's higher bit error rate or >> rated MTBF? I've been reading about OpenSolaris and ZFS for several months >> now and am incredibly intrigued, but have yet to implement the solution in >> my lab. >> > > Well ... the price difference means you can have mirrors of the laptop > drives and still save money compared to the "enterprise" ones. With a modern > patrol-reading (scrub or hardware raid) array-setup, and with some > redundancy, you can re-implement "I" to mean "inexpensive" not "independent" > in RAID. ;) > > > //Svein > > -- > -- "You can choose your friends, you can choose the deals." - Equity Private "If Linux is faster, it's a Solaris bug." - Phil Harman Blog - http://whatderass.blogspot.com/ Twitter - @khyron4eva
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