Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-20 Thread erik quanstrom
> > drive mfgrs don't report write error rates. i would consider any > > drive with write errors to be dead as fried chicken. a more > > interesting question is what is the chance you can read the > > written data back correctly. in that case with desktop drives, > > you have a > > 8 bits/by

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-20 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:43:42 EDT erik quanstrom wrote: > > I am going to try my hands at beating a dead horse:) > > So when you create a Venti volume, it basically writes '0's' to all the > > blocks of the underlying device right? If I put a venti volume on a AoE > > device which is a linux ra