[geeks] Big Damn File System....

Brian Hechinger geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Jun 18 14:03:48 CDT 2001


On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:47:47PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> Good gawd how do you back that up? Do you?

big DLT tape libraries usually.  they have 2x 2TB NetApp filers at the Agere
building i used to work at.  have a big honkin StorageTek that they use.  and
we were the "small" office, the other three offices had 6, 4 and 4 of these
2TB NetApp beasts.  they of course had several large libraries. :)

> That is an awful lot of data on one spindle...

i'm one of those people who things smaller spindles in greater volume will
always be better.  :)

-brian



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