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)."

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OpenBSD's RAID is Dying

[NitsujTPU]

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

question for you guys.

[Anonymous Coward]

What does the 'i' stand for in RAID?

Thanks.

Re:Okay,

[Homology]

if I had $12,500 I'd have to offer it as a bounty for an original *BSD is dieing troll. The variation on a theme are just not as funny as they once were.

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.

Re:Link to make a donation

[Anonymous Coward]

If you want to keep high-quality contributions to OpenBSD, donate to paypal@NetBSD.org. :*)

Re:token flame

[BobNET]

I'll donate if you switch the license to the GPL...

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!

Re:token flame

[ulib]

> [...] You're a genius!
If the 50.000 offer were anything near serious, he definitely would be!

Re:Perhaps...

[Nimrangul]

You may not have heard about this, so I'll let you in on a secret, Compaq is dead. HP had a merger with them and now controls all that was Compaq.

This would make it slightly difficult to buy from them.

Re:"Open" CVS?

[drinkypoo]

Try "less open" CVS. CVS is GPLed.

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.)