Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> 2. Tier-2 Hardware
>
> One storage machine has the OS. Should get two of the machines up
> and running, allow Len to do some testing with the third
> machine. There is some question about how many parity disks we
> want, one or two. There is some discussion at HEPiX about how long
> it takes to reconstruct an array after loosing a disk, we would be
> at risk during the reconstruction. Len will try to measure how long
> it takes and try to get information from other labs. With double
> parity it is more reliable but there is a write-time and space
> parity. An element of the discussion would be the type of data on
> it, if it was really just a cache of data stored elsewhere or if it
> was the primary storage. Even if we believe it is just a cache an
> worry would be how long it would take to reimport all the data
> again from BNL (probably around a week). Could setup different
In the above paragraph, "Len" should be "Lance" (Nakata) two times.
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