Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:33:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news Message-ID: <199608261733.MAA00654@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960826113723.9671B-100000@sasami.jurai.net> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Aug 26, 96 11:44:47 am
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> > Guess you can play with words, but in my opinion, not if it's just a > > controller... a real RAID includes little things like hot swappability, > > redundant power, things that require hardware. ;-) > > Well, the controller doesn't have that, but the SmartRAID cabinet is the > geek-box you're looking for. Its a real solution. > > > I thought when I looked at the DPT stuff it was just a controller like the > > Adaptec 3985 "RAID" controller, but had some cache RAM on it too. > > To an extent, but you can plug them into the DPT box... > > Here... > > http://www.dpt.com/raidsys.html > > It does power management, automatic faulting on errors, individual drive > temprature monitoring and will make breakfast on Wednesdays I'm told. Heyyyyyyyyyy wait a minute here. That looks (from the fuzzy GIF) identical to the nifty DEC "RAIDstor" SC4200 we just got.. the description certainly matches except DEC has a RAID controller stuffed into one of the 5.25" bays... hmm Most fascinating. Wonder if it really is the same basic box.. > > That's great from the computer's point of view, of course... :-) but I am > > still hesitant to call something that is not a complete solution a "RAID". > > I will grant it "RAID controller" though. > > Indeed. > > > Freenix as of July doesn't even LIST you :-) (looking for: "intersurf", > > maybe I should be looking for something else) > > Yep. We suck. I'm not claiming otherwise. :-) > > Considering that the box was deployed at the beginning of summer and I > > have not really even started pushing a lot of newsfeeds off of it, the fact > > that it splashed into the Top 250 it's first month online and the Top 100 > > it's second month online was pretty impressive I thought. > > You'll be in top25 at least by next month. :) I am not that optimistic, that way I will be pleasantly suprised when we make "Top 10" :-) > > Hmmmmmmmm no wonder, look at my daily transmission totals... > > > > TOTALS 1341 1205487 840575 164662 74995 69% 866:44:58 > > > > Almost 70% acceptance from remote sites is nice to see.. > > > > We can take this offline.. > > Yes, you're kicking ass. No doubt about that. > > Its my fondest hope to see 2 or 3 FreeBSD based boxes in top10. > > I'm gonna do everything I can on my end to try to get ours there. Well, go for it. :-) Remember also: news admins who work together can collectively get further than news admins who work independently... I administer several large news servers and do so in concert, this does help a lot. > > Actually I think I am still running mmap on news.sol.net... > > Ah, I won't bother then. *shrug* Yeah, I don't think it matters... but as I noted, I've been using READ on all my new installs. > > > Yep, our newsserver was sucking really bad until recently. We were down a > > > disk and using a really old 2.0.5 SNAP release. > > > > Ouch. :-) > > Yes, we lost one of our 3 spool disks. (Gag, I know, thats gonna change > too) > > We're running on a P90 with 64meg of ram and 3 4.3 gig Quantum Grand Prix > drives on 2 Buslogic 946s controllers. History file is on the OS disk > which is a 2.1 gig Quantum Grand Prix. > > We're using CCD to stripe the 3 spool disks. > > Zakk (the newsadmin) is currently adding feeds and hopefull we'll start > showing up in Freenix. *cross fingers* > > He's also going to be building a new news box. *evil grin* Well, hope it works out. :-) Maybe some of the rants about CCD have been helpful... ... JG
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