2010/9/7 Cliff Brake <[email protected]>: > 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 >
Cliff, all, Please note that I am not against paying our part of the resources. The 4.5 TB request to me came as kind-of a surprise as I don't see us using up that amount of resources (as we currently have 50 GB). But ofc as we also use CPU cycles, space, etc etc, so I see no problem with us donating some storage hardware as we also use resources donated by others. Wrt OSUOSL: I see the people are doing a good job, and I really appreciate it. Best regards, Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
