Oops meant to send this too the list. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> The problem with serving large datasets from multiple machines is you >> would then need to have each of the filesystems mounted around to the >> other machines and a nasty web of symlinks to keep it all together and >> served which IMO is unworkable... or ... use something like hdfs ... >> which I don't think is well suited to serving data from. These small >> machines would work well for small datasets, but I believe we need to >> start with some large base datasets that are larger than 4TB in size >> ... thus the need for at least large machine to start with. > > So should we build a couple of these? > 67TB per 4U for ~$9k + our free labour. > > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ >
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