Yeah I'm not sure of many small businesses that can afford a cluster at the office.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Vicky Staubly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Tom Piwowar wrote: > >> John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own >>> >> >> I'll go with that. Thank you. >> > > I like John's postings... he's rational, and where his solution might not > work for everyone, he usually acknowledges that. > > However, did not one of the links posted here state that Google does not >> use RAID, it uses replication, except in a few situations where they find >> RAID is unavoidable. >> > > As I recall, the "Google File System" is a distributed file system (i.e. > where a particular chunk of data might be one any of a cluster of > computers), and because it replicates each chunk of data onto multiple > systems, you could say it's "application-level RAID". Or, you could say > it does "filesystem-level replication" (as opposed to database-level > replication). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System > > -- > Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
