Hi,
On 3 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> If you have a good raid card then you can do online resizing, volume
> allocation, volume format changing, volume migration etc. For those
> cases you have to get the journalling right in order to be able to do
> that kind of thing properly
That's true, if you use partitions. I don't see the problem.
> Standard PC with 80Gb disks benefits from dynamic partitioning. But if
> you are pushed then you can shove 3ware 8500 PCI cards into your slots
> and get 12 SATA hotplug IDE channels per PCI slot.
Oh, well. IDE.
> Thats 12 * 200Gb hotswap per pci slot. Which given 4 slots of it would
> come out at a nice 9600Gb of disk. Maybe you can archive usenet on one
> PC after all 8)
Yes, but lately that's rather a funny than an enterprise solution.
Thunder
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