Sorry, my question should have gone to the list. On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:31:43 -0500 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Charles Curley > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This will be nice for spreading vtapes across multiple hard drives > > without the complications of RAID or LVM. > > Yes. It will also get around the serialization requirement for dumps, > for folks with enough IO bandwidth to write multiple dumps at once. Yup. Which suggests more controllers with just one or two tape drives hanging off of them. Tape drive vendors will love this. > > > What happens if a tape drive fails? Does the code then send all the > > dumps out to the remaining drives? Or does it leave the dumps > > destined for the failed drive on the holding disk? > > That's a good question, that I will look into. Obviously the desired > strategy is to get those dumps onto storage media. OK. But one implication is that each tape drive/changer set has to have enough spare tapes to cover for a down tape drive for a few days. (If the tape drive will be down for longer, presumably you can order more tapes.) -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
