Only if they're presented as LUNs ... /dev/baloney0, /dev/baloney1, etc.

-----Original Message----- From: Greg Whynott [mailto:Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca] Sent: Fri 9/4/2009 7:47 AM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: Question about network deleting.

you can use baloney sandwiches and make a luster cluster, buster!

8)

-g

On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Andrew Klaassen wrote:

I Wuz Wrong. I emailed the Backblaze guys, and they're actually
using a stock kernel and stock firmware. Here's the response:

"Regarding your questions below, we run the Debian backport of
2.6.26, use stock firmware from Silicon Image, and the back planes
we actually get from a company called CFY in Taiwan (not Silicon
Image.)

"We actually do plan to publish at least a few more blog posts with
more data & learnings about the pods. (Follow us on Twitter if you
want to be notified when we do...)

"Also, we've received so many requests to buy the storage pods in
the last 24 hours despite providing all the specs that we're
contemplating where to do this somehow. If people are interested in
possibly doing this, they can email salescontact@backblaze.com and
we'll keep them abreast of whether we'll do that."

I wonder if you could make a Lustre cluster of these guys, or if
there'd be problems with redundancy...

Andrew

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Andrew Klaassen clawsoon@yahoo.com wrote:

From: Andrew Klaassen clawsoon@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Question about network deleting. To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Received: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 7:24 AM Oh, and they also thank a couple of engineers at Silicon Image "who helped us debug SATA protocol problems and loaned us 10 different SATA cards to test against".

That's the kind of testing I'm talking about.

What's the chance they're running custom SATA drivers, what with all that SATA protocol debugging? That's the kind of thing that it's hard for a small studio (or even a large one) to do. What's the chance that those drivers are going to make it back into the mainstream kernel? (One can only hope.)

Andrew

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Andrew Klaassen clawsoon@yahoo.com wrote:

From: Andrew Klaassen clawsoon@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Question about network deleting. To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Received: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 7:19 AM --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Klaus Steden klaus-s@moving-picture.com wrote:

You could try one of these ...

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

I've been thinking about building something like that,

but > I've had a hard time finding good info about port-multiplier > backplanes. The good news is that Backblaze seems to > have a working, well-tested config using port multipliers; > the bad news is that they thank "James Lee at Chyang Fun > Industries in Taiwan for customizing SATA boards to simplify > our design". I probably don't have the buying power > clout to get James Lee - as nice a guy as he might be - to > do that for me. (Although... if they have a few extras > left over from the Backblaze build...) > > Andrew > > > > > > _ > Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new > Internet Explorer? 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for > Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ > __ > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@studiosysadmins.com > http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss >

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