[volunteergrid2-l] disk drive failure statistics

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

Ok, I'm convinced. Thanks for listening to my harebrained scheme! :)

2012/4/7 Dmitriy Kazimirov <dmitriy.kazimirov at viorsan.com>:
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> 08.04.2012, в 10:52, David-Sarah Hopwood написал(а):
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> 2. Does anyone see any potential for error in this scheme?
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> Tahoe normally only has reason to look at the storage partition. If
> the system has another disk that fails, Tahoe wouldn't see it, but a
> program specifically designed to look for such failures on all
> connected non-removable disks, would.
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> If the disk failure also takes out the partition on which Tahoe or
> other software on which it depends is installed, then Tahoe won't be
> able to report it.
>
> -1 too
> why it will be not good in my specific case:
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> Tahoe Storage directory(only storage,not .tahoe) is 500 Gb Mac OS X Disk
> Image right now - so it will always be 'good' until underlying volume fails.
> Also, if system drive fails - this will cause at least node unavailability.
> in addition - if router's drive (my router is running ASG with home license
> so it needs hdd for work) fails - this also means node is unavailable.
>
> What and how tahoe will measure in this case?
> I think there are other complex configurations too..
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