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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706191225060.25045@asgard.lang.hm>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:28:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: david@...g.hm
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
cc: Brendan Conoboy <blc@...hat.com>,
Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Wakko Warner <wakko@...mx.eu.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: limits on raid
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Phillip Susi wrote:
> david@...g.hm wrote:
>> one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array.
>
> Huh? You can only have 16 devices on a scsi bus, counting the host adapter.
> And I don't think you can even manage that much reliably with the newer
> higher speed versions, at least not without some very special cables.
6 devices on the bus (2 OS drives, 3 promise drive shelves, controller
card)
>> yes I realize that there will be bottlenecks with this, the large capacity
>> is to handle longer history (it's going to be a 30TB circular buffer being
>> fed by a pair of OC-12 links)
>
> Building one of those nice packet sniffers for the NSA to install on AT&Ts
> network eh? ;)
just for going back in time to track hacker actions at a bank.
I'm hopeing that once I figure out the drives the rest of the software
will basicly boil down to tcpdump with the right options to write to a
circular buffer of files.
David Lang
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