On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:31, R. Scott Belford wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Warren Togami wrote: > > snip --- > > > Apparently one of the disks in the RAID1 array of videl.ics.hawaii.edu > > failed during November. I am hoping for donations to help pay for the > > replacement disk and other upcoming server upgrades that are needed. > > Is priority one to replace the failed drive for this array? If so, > what size? I can order it tomorrow. I am assuming that it needs to > match the other 120gb drive I donated last year. >
The 120GB drive is used in single for the mirror currently, there were 60GB drives that I bought more than 2 years ago for the system drives. One of those failed. > > > > I personally put $570 into Videl + Fedora servers this year, $60 of > > which were reimbursed by earlier donations from the mainland USA and > > Europe to Fedora via hosef.org. Currently Videl is showing its age > > with > > growing performance problems and constantly high load averages, so we > > are in the process of adding a 3rd HOSEF server to the University of > > Hawaii ICS department server room that was donated by Pricebusters. > > > > Your donations are needed in order to keep these three servers in > > operation as parts fail, and add much more mirror storage capacity. It > > is my goal to have at least 1TB of mirror storage after we install the > > 3rd server. Videl's current 120GB disk cannot hold much more, and I am > > always needing to delete more parts of distributions in order to save > > space. (Next to go is Mandrake and Debian PowerPC.) > > Server 3 that is coming from our friends at Pricebusters has 120gb of > storage mirrored with software raid. Our plan is to host LUAU and > other HOSEF lists there. What kind of space will this create on Videl, > and can we make arrangements before we drop Mandrake and Debian > PowerPC? Respectfully, one of the "conditions". so to speak, of the > first 120gb drive donation, was that we host Debian with it. Please > wait before we drop it. When server 3 comes on line, that will be 240 > gb of raid storage at our disposal. I did not know PPC was part of the conditions, but don't worry about PowerPC being deleted. I can move data from the FTP drive into free space on the system drive temporarily until we get the larger array. I really want to launch server 3 with more than 240GB storage... but are you sure you are doing your math right? 120GB 2x mirrored is not 240GB... anyhow we'll figure it out. Warren
