From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5GW4-0000Ol-Q7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:17:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FC6FE085D; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265DCE085D for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:16:59 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,668,1220223600"; d="scan'208";a="50045948" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 26 Nov 2008 09:16:58 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC513137ACB for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:16:55 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <6589BF65-24AA-4247-BE65-D0CFC999B7A3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200811252335.28779.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:16:51 +0000 References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <492c6aef.uN1RRcHNp8dUe+Nc%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <200811252335.28779.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Archives-Salt: 1c2793be-8b22-4dec-b899-786f6a0b17f1 X-Archives-Hash: 6772948d2003b6764f9b5e959240227e On 25 Nov 2008, at 21:35, Alan McKinnon wrote: > ... > Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their > new SSDs. > The reason is that I'm getting sick and tired of having to explain and > justify why the laws of physics prevent my girlfriend from being > able to > backup her 5T banking warehouse on the schedule the law of the > country would > like her to. There's a solution, but it's hackish and ugly and > involves > extremely careful management of LVM snapshots. This is simply way > too much > admin effort for what should really be a simple incremental backup > process. Sounds like you want ZFS. On Solaris. On a little dedicated box which exports space via NFS. Stroller.