On 4/15/07, scsijon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 08:56 AM 4/15/2007, Darryl Gregorash wrote: >On 2007-04-14 16:07, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > What will happen after "sdX" reaches from sda to sdz ? i.e. if you > > have over 26 hard disks in your system ? > > >If you have that many in your system, I think you should consider >replacing some of them with much larger drives ;-)THIS IS NOT A FLAME, but.... personally this change seriously makes me worry I have scripts and software that create drives with links to those in other systems as part of the security and backup routines I use, some are to scsi drives, some are ide and some sata, the drive type in most cases relates to the function performed on the site or spanning sites Before I can consider going to 10.3 :- I shall have to scan, amend, rewrite, binfile at least 20 scripts for cross connection, another 38 for backup and seven security plus workout how I get around the drive type and now limited drive identity\numbers problem and that's just the linux side, how my mini's deal with it I am yet to imagine, thankfully I don't have any mainframes any more. I also suspect it means some ten to twelve thousand dollars additional hardware needed per site, say a quarter of a million dollars plus extra at the four centres and spares of course. I wouldn't of minded the change if the old way worked as well (dual modes) until things were changed with a boot script "software switch" I'd also would have liked some warning, (and I suspect others in the same boat would also have,) well in advance this type of change was going to happen, surely someone was aware this major change was coming and could have put out a notice to users/programmers. It's not as if this is a minor change hda has been around since the ST408/512 drive chains were created It means I have at least 200 hours of work ahead in mapping out the changes needed, let alone arranging things like programming, testing, reviewing, issuing, checking...etc., say another hundred or so thousand dollars Well there goes my holiday this year again, and just as I thought things were finally starting to slow down. I am suppose to be semi-retired It also means 10.2 will have to last at least two years when we implement it at Christmas 07, replacing 8 Maybe we should think sled, but we don't have the money for both, we are ?suppose to be self sufficent and non-profit! scsijon
I was just thinking about how a new OS release is going to cost you a huge amount of time and money. Basically the reason is you are using a Linux Enthusiasts distro as a datacenter solution which you are apparently investing millions of dollars of hardware/software/customization around. You should really evaluate SLES 10.0. It is expensive compared to OpenSUSE, but it is extremely cheap compared to what you describe. If you implemented it now you would have another 4 years or so of supported service. (iirc) Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
