Re: Canonical and Debian

[Josh Lauricha <laurichj@bioinfo.ucr.edu>]

On Mon 06/06/05 20:22, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2005-06-06 19:22:08, schrieb Peter 'p2' De Schrijver:
> I do not know a mirror without Raid-5 so asuming, there are someone
> which use 3Ware 3w9500 + four WD360GR (around 100 GByte) and they
> pay 1200 Euro for the Controller and four small 36 GByte Drives.

While I don't run an official mirror, it is public (due to my laziness)
for debian/sarge on x86/ppc and a "testing" AMD64 mirror.  And I am just
wondering why anyone would use RAID in a mirror for. RAID provides for
the security of your data in case a disk fails (and occasionally
performance boosts). But... its already a mirror... if my drives die, I
just run debmirror....  The mirror will be gone for a bit, but thats
not a huge loss (Usually).

I guess if the network is expensive then thats an issue. But if the
network is expensive why are you running a mirror in the first place?

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