On Wednesday 30 July 2008 18:27:42 David Boyes wrote: > > I initially suggested RAIT to the submitter, but he said he was not > > considering that -- if I remember right RAIT actually requires > > something > > > like > > 5 tape drives. Maybe I am wrong on that though, because I looked at > > the > > > code > > about 5 years ago. > > It's like RAID -- you need one more drive than you want to use to store > data. The current LLNL RAIT library code supports 2, 3, and 5 drive > stripes (1+1, 2+1, and 4+1 data+parity). It wouldn't be hard to expand > that to larger stripe sizes if need be, but probably not all that > interesting unless done as described below. > > > In any case, once you are talking about an LTO4 drive, it is > > currently > > > impossible or nearly so to drive it full speed (except possibly by > > some > > > high > > end IBM mainframes), so why complicate things when Bacula still lacks > > a > > > lot > > of nice features ... :-) > > True, although with multiple 10G Ethernets and RTSP you can get pretty > close to making a LTO4 sweat a little....8-). FICON Express > multi-pathing is a lovely thing. > > Something like this would be more profitably be implemented as a virtual > volume storage manager independent of a tool like Bacula. Hmm...
Well, we are almost there (to your Virtual Storage Manager) ... :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
