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OpenBSD CVS RAID Array Failing, Needs Replacement
Sam writes "The OpenBSD cvs server has a failing RAID array.
Users of the projects on that array:
OpenBSD,
OpenSSH,
OpenBGPD,
OpenNTPD,
and the upcoming
OpenCVS
are all invited to contribute towards the $12,500 cost of a suitably high-spec replacement.
OpenBSD Journal article, and original request (thread)."
It is official; Netcraft confirms: OpenBSD's RAID is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered OpenBSD community when IDC confirmed that the OpenBSD RAID has failed again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent properly operating. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that OpenBSD's raid has lost more sectors, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. OpenBSD's RAID is collapsing into complete Redundant Disarray of Inexpensive Disks, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict OpenBSD's RAID's future. The hand writing is on the wall: OpenBSD's RAID faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for OpenBSD's RAID because OpenBSD's RAID is dying. Things are looking very bad for OpenBSD's RAID. As many of us are already aware, OpenBSD's RAID continues to data. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Fact: OpenBSD's RAID is dying
What does the 'i' stand for in RAID?
Thanks.
It's well know that the troll community is suffering greatly from excessive inbreeding. It's really noticable that this inbreeding is seriously impairing their already scant intellectual skills. They are not even capable to do a simple copy/paste/replace/post. They'll quite simply breed themselves to extinction, so you can donate that bounty to OpenBSD instead.
If you want to keep high-quality contributions to OpenBSD, donate to paypal@NetBSD.org. :*)
Perfect, then someone will come along and offer $50 000 for a BSD-licensed version, and then the project will be back under the same license as before. Except now it will have a new RAID, $37 500 in extra cash, plus whatever money and/or hardware you planned to donate. You're a genius!
> [...] You're a genius!
If the 50.000 offer were anything near serious, he definitely would be!
This would make it slightly difficult to buy from them.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Dell's 4 hour service isn't as fast as having spare parts on-hand
Oh sure Dell will sell you 4 hour response... they'll just never deliver on it and last time I spoke with Dell they couldn't even understand fucking English and the best I could get was questions like, "Is the power switched ON?", "Do you currently have power in your area?" and other shit like that.
"Hey fucktard! We're on the 47th floor in a building with a bunch of other Fortune 100's, we have a massive diesel Caterpillar generator with enough fuel capacity to keep going continuously while fuel trucks constantly do laps between us and fuel depots. It keeps a battery bank which is probably larger than your whole office.... topped up with FUCKING POWER! We are first World, not third. The last time this area suffered a blackout... I was not even born yet. Can you put someone on the phone who a) Speeks da fuckin' In-glish and b) understands that we have a RAID array that is FUCKING GOING except for one drive!? Someone who realises the importance of the fact that your FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT ARRAY did not bring the hotspare online? Ass-hole!"
Arguably, GPL software is more Free (with a capital F) while BSD software is more Open. I say arguably because people have been arguing about this shit on slashdot for ages (myself included.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"