On Friday June 23, francois.barre@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The problem is that there is no cost effective backup available. > > One-liner questions : > - How does Google make backups ? No, Google ARE the backups :-) > - Aren't tapes dead yet ? LTO-3 does 300Gig, and LTO-4 is planned. They may not cope with tera-byte arrays in one hit, but they still have real value. > - What about a NUMA principle applied to storage ? You mean an Hierarchical Storage Manager? Yep, they exist. I'm sure SGI, EMC and assorted other TLAs could sell you one. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
