On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 18:36, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 24 Sep 2004, at 18:11, FRLinux wrote:
>> > Is there such thing out there available on the market ?
>> Yes - your former boss now works for an organisation using such a
> thing. 200TB is now achievable with fewer than 1000 disks. However,
> when you're dealing with that many commodity disks, you have to have a
> system which can easily handle the inevitable hardware failures without
> degrading and one which can handle the large volumes of data. This
> means data replication a la RAID, and so of course your disk count goes
> up somewhat.
>> The three storey brains at google came up with the google file system
> (based of course on earlier work such as the global file system) and
> there's an interesting white paper available about it.
>> Bottom line is that it can be done but DIAS is going to need a big
> boost to its budget. And I don't know if there is a solution available
> on the market - you can be sure google won't sell you one.
>They might sell you access to one .....
>>>> Niall
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