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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:54:47PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> So the hate here is "getting crufty, outmoded DIY kit to do what I
> want can be way too complicated, can take way too long to get working,
> and may not work as well as more modern off-the-shelf kit" ?
that's expected with castoffs like this, and isn't in and of itself
hateful. what wasn't expected was the 32768MB logical device limit and
the four hour parity initialization, which are both firmware
limitations. firmware is just a fancy name for software that executes
on a processor other than the main CPU(s).
the software RAID option, necessary because toor knows at least one of
these drives will eventually fail, has the hatable read/modify/write
hole: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=raid_z .
> It may not be in keeping with the spirit of the list, but maybe, just
> maybe, user misjudgement (on top of more user misjudgement) is a
> factor here. :-)
since when did this list include a restriction that the source of
software hate be non-self-inflicted? (:
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