From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: 2.5.28 and partitions
Date: 25 Jul 2002 11:42:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027593729.9488.24.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F44891A593A6DE4B99FDCB7CC537BBBBB8394A@AUSXMPS308.aus.amer.dell.com>
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 04:22, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> Absolutely. A single external disk pod with 14 73GB SCSI disks is >1TB,
> with 145GB disks expected in the very near future, and 120GB IDE disks
> available today. You can put 4 disk pods on a single 4-channel RAID
With 3ware cards I know multiple people using 2 8 port 3ware cards each
with 8 160Gb IDE disks on it. These are now extremely cheap systems to
build, especially if you buy the 3ware cards carefully and don't believe
the list prices.
> > ... and still use i386 with these disks?
>
> Yep. We're doing all of this today on our x86 server products, and don't
> expect x86 to die any time soon. I'm on conference calls each week with
I can point to multiple people doing this. Everything from video data
vaults to archives of scanned document images. Right now they have to
split the arrays up, but as the disks get bigger and cheaper that is
going to become a pain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-25 3:22 Matt_Domsch
2002-07-25 5:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-25 11:44 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-30 9:58 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207250739390.17037-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 13:03 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 16:50 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 17:35 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2002-07-25 17:57 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-25 18:27 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-27 5:56 ` Austin Gonyou
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207251245530.17621-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 17:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 10:42 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2002-08-02 14:54 Jesse Pollard
2002-08-02 18:33 ` Kai Henningsen
[not found] <15688.27022.143541.447952@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-07-31 23:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-31 23:38 Matt_Domsch
[not found] <F44891A593A6DE4B99FDCB7CC537BBBBB839AC@AUSXMPS308.aus.amer .dell.com>
2002-07-31 22:58 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-31 22:47 Matt_Domsch
[not found] <15688.25919.138565.6427@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-07-31 22:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 10:08 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 12:31 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-08-01 19:29 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-01 20:31 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 20:45 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-01 21:08 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 21:25 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 21:41 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-02 19:40 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-01 21:02 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 21:27 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 21:45 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-02 5:21 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-01 21:24 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 19:47 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-02 20:49 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 21:21 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-08-02 22:12 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 22:53 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-07-25 17:50 Andries.Brouwer
2002-07-25 13:24 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-25 13:45 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-26 5:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-07-25 12:43 Petr Vandrovec
2002-07-24 22:42 Andries.Brouwer
2002-07-24 23:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-07-25 0:20 ` kwijibo
2002-07-25 4:00 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207241925450.14656-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2002-07-25 2:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-25 5:15 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207242213540.1231-100000@home.transmeta.com >
2002-07-25 8:43 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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