Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 00:23:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, taob@io.org, klam@awod.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Streamlogic RAIDION drive arrays Message-ID: <199609080523.AAA17753@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199609072345.QAA02543@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 7, 96 04:45:10 pm
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> What if: > > 1) You sell commercial feed services, so the news has to be reliable? > If you loase your feed data, so does everyone down stream from > you. You should still be able to recover. In case of catastrophic failure, I generally try to rebuild back past the point at which my drive crashed anyways. Having to absorb the penalty for RAID operations may reduce your spool's throughput anyways.. > 2) You sell posting services (as an ISP)? If your crash occurs > before the feed distribution, but after an article has been > posted, your customer's article is lost. That would be a matter of incompetence. If you are not doing real time outbound feeds in this day and age, you do not belong playing the news game. I can measure propagation time for locally posted articles from any of the news servers that I run to any of the Top 5 news servers in terms of seconds.. and count on one hand. :-) (I may be an example of an unusually well connected site, but the point is, I move the articles and I do so _fast_). ... JG
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