On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/9/3 Cliff Brake <[email protected]>: > >> >> Our immediate financial need is to upgrade storage on our server hardware: >> >> 4 new 1.5TB drives. Approx $1k > > Maybe before we spent 1k on disks: > > How much diskspace do we have now? > How much of it is used? > And what stored is on it? > And why is this massive amount of storage (4.5 TB assuming they are in > RAID5) needed? > > I feel 1k is a big amount for a small e.V. like ours, and before > deciding on the spending of it we should probably first discuss the > issue and evaluate other options. > E.g. maybe we can find a sponsor to donate some space and bandwidth on > their server.
We share hardware and hosting costs with a number of other projects like: foonas.org nslu2-linux.org openwiz.org preware.org webos-internals.org Historically, we have funded very little of the server costs at the OSUOSL site. I personally purchased a CPU for them at one point, and I'm not sure much else has come from the OE project. So from a project standpoint, we are likely behind when it comes to paying for our share of the hardware costs. The 4.5TB will likely be shared with all the above projects. The http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Infrastructure page lists some of the resources allocated specifically to the OE project. Other resources (such as a dedicated database server, and backups) are not so apparent. So in summary, we should fund at least a portion of the above storage costs. Personally, I'm satisfied with how things are OSUOSL are run -- Tom King and others spend a lot of volunteer time keeping things running. Thanks, Cliff -- ================= http://bec-systems.com _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
