[rescue] sm?1 vs sm?1-2

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:26:57AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:47:18AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Wasn't an Auspex essentially software RAID5?  I just don't want to waste half
> > my hard drives.
> 
> Yes, but the auspex handled the RAID5, keeping the host from having to do
> it - the host was just speaking NFS.  It was a *dedicated* RAID5 "processor",
> so to speak.

So, an Auspex used SPARCs as a dedicated raid5 processor to keep the host
from being over loaded, right?  So, why not use a multi processor sparc to
do the same?

Can you suggest some other way not to throw away half the hard drive space?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd