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From: matso@dtek.chalmers.se (Mats Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 15 Mar 1997 13:43:05 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
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Message-ID: <5ge919$8eo@nyheter.chalmers.se>
References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <5g76gb$6c6@flea.best.net> <3327BBF9.784A@earthlink.net> <5g9jad$bo3@flea.best.net>
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In article <5g9jad$bo3@flea.best.net>,
Matt Dillon <dillon@flea.best.net> wrote:
> Why the hell would I want to throw 30 hard drives on a single platform
> when I can get ten times the reliability by distributing those drives
> to several platforms?
Depends on how you measure reliability - if ALL of those disk drives
has to be on-line at the same time for the system to work, it would be a
lot better to have as few systems as possible running those disks -
preferably one. Fewer links in the chain, so to speak. Of course, it if
HAS to be up, a dual-ported RAID and some high-availability solutions
is what you should be looking for anyhow.
/Mats