+----- On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:23:01 PDT, writes: | > Seems like the real question is would customers be willing to trade | > rebuild time for additional capacity on the low end. I'd certainly like | > to see the option available because we would favor high capacity whereas | > other customers may favor low rebuild times. | | This is a tough question. There's an old UNIX saying: | | We sell rope. If you hang yourself, it's your own fault. | | I think that part of what distinguishes appliance vendors is that we | don't like to sell rope. For instance, we've got no way to disable | RAID in our system, and we always include NV-RAM. | | On the other hand, as our customers become more sophisticated and | familiar with our products, perhaps it does make sense to be more | flexible.
I was cleaning up my toasters folder when I saw this and one of the interesting things with raid groups as I see it is that we can divide the system up in groups that can be rebuilt in a reasonable time without restricting the total size of the filer.
Any comments?
/Michael