6 Apr
2003
6 Apr
'03
6:53 a.m.
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:13:28PM -0800, R Parker wrote:
I'm not sure how I'd manage the volume of
production
that we do within any 24 hour period without hardware
scsi raid. And I don't care because anything else
would be penny wise but dollar foolish. I also don't
know anything about latency with raid. Perhaps it
applies only to kernel controled software raid. Ardour
includes a local/native raid 0 implementation that
shouldn't experience any computational latency.
The latency in question is (I think) disk seek latency, which is unrelated
the the kernel scheduling latency that we all sweat over reducing :) The
potential problem is that something like ardour might be filling a
fraction of the throughput, but the disks would be unable to respond in
time.
gotta duck and cringe. :) Guys, with my requirements,
could it be done better and for less money? It's not
Hell no, I'd use exactly the same setup. My experience is that it costs
far more to back up a large disk system than it does to populate it with
disks anyway.
OT: I have one, wonderful, glorious machine at work with no backups :) The
software on it all comes out of CVS or is stock RedHat and the data on it
is refreshed every night :)
- Steve