[geeks] Fwd: [IP] Interesting speculation on the tech behind gmail

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Mike Meredith <mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk>
"
"On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:22:46 -0400 (EDT), Sandwich Maker wrote:
"> "> The most obvious challenge is the storage. You can't lose people's 
"> "> email, and you don't want to ever be down, so data has to be 
"> "> replicated. RAID is no good; when a disk fails, a human needs to 
"> "> replace the bad disk, or there is risk of data loss if more disks 
"> "> fail. One imagines the old ENIAC technician running up and down the
"> 
"> this is so glibly wrong.
"
"Well except in one bit accidentally ... with a large enough number of
"disks you will need someone running around replacing the failed ones on
"a full-time basis.

yeah, but -- with 100k cpu boards, they must have someone running
around replacing failures already.
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