[luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

[Warren Togami]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:31, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 07:44 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> snip ---
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> > Apparently one of the disks in the RAID1 array of videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> > failed during November.  I am hoping for donations to help pay for the
> > replacement disk and other upcoming server upgrades that are needed.
> 
> Is priority one to replace the failed drive for this array?  If so, 
> what size?  I can order it tomorrow.  I am assuming that it needs to 
> match the other 120gb drive I donated last year.
> 

The 120GB drive is used in single for the mirror currently, there were
60GB drives that I bought more than 2 years ago for the system drives. 
One of those failed.
> >
> > I personally put $570 into Videl + Fedora servers this year, $60 of
> > which were reimbursed by earlier donations from the mainland USA and
> > Europe to Fedora via hosef.org.  Currently Videl is showing its age 
> > with
> > growing performance problems and constantly high load averages, so we
> > are in the process of adding a 3rd HOSEF server to the University of
> > Hawaii ICS department server room that was donated by Pricebusters.
> >
> > Your donations are needed in order to keep these three servers in
> > operation as parts fail, and add much more mirror storage capacity.  It
> > is my goal to have at least 1TB of mirror storage after we install the
> > 3rd server.  Videl's current 120GB disk cannot hold much more, and I am
> > always needing to delete more parts of distributions in order to save
> > space.  (Next to go is Mandrake and Debian PowerPC.)
> 
> Server 3 that is coming from our friends at Pricebusters has 120gb of 
> storage mirrored with software raid.  Our plan is to host LUAU and 
> other HOSEF lists there.  What kind of space will this create on Videl, 
> and can we make arrangements before we drop Mandrake and Debian 
> PowerPC?  Respectfully, one of the "conditions". so to speak, of the 
> first 120gb drive donation, was that we host Debian with it.  Please 
> wait before we drop it.  When server 3 comes on line, that will be 240 
> gb of raid storage at our disposal.

I did not know PPC was part of the conditions, but don't worry about
PowerPC being deleted.  I can move data from the FTP drive into free
space on the system drive temporarily until we get the larger array.

I really want to launch server 3 with more than 240GB storage... but are
you sure you are doing your math right?  120GB 2x mirrored is not
240GB... anyhow we'll figure it out.

Warren