[Gllug] creating bootable cdroms from .iso images

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hearns [mailto:John.Hearns at cern.ch]
> > cost but I doubt a company would mind spending £100 a month 
> to ensure that
> > there data can be got at 24/7 if anything goes pete tong. I 
> dread to think
> > how much data you could store in a 4u box nowadays but I 
> imagine it would be
> > substantial.
> Hmmm..
> Just walked across the room.
> There are two rows of black-cased Elonex servers. 
> These aren't 4U - more like about knee/waist high.
> Not all are disk servers, but a lot are.
> Each has 1Tbyte of IDE RAID.
> 
> I'd say 1Tbyte in 4U is easy - and you don't need SCSI.

Large IDE's are ideal bandwidth is the problem. If you offer £2/1Gb/Month or
£0.02/1Mb/Month (just examples) which ever you think markets better and a
minimum disk area of 50Gb. I honestly reckon that you could get people
interested. Bandwidth limitations would mean that rsync over ssh would be a
better option on a slow connection but if you had a 1mb connection this will
service 4 ADSL companies running on the standard 512/256 connection quite
comfortably.

How many people here wish they had access to a central repository for their
data which is accessible from anywhere. When I get to a pc I always install
several utilities that means rummaging around the net looking for them. If
you change jobs I bet a lot of people would have liked to have kept a lot of
the scripts that they had written. Its not just business's that would be
interested in that kind of storage. Having lots of users with small disk
areas could cause havoc with bandwidth but as far as I am aware bandwidth
limiting is no longer a black art in Linux but this starts to become labour
intensive. The reason why I like the storage idea is because it is less
work. If you where just offering secure ftp and a disk area then the after
the initial set-up there would be very little administration.

Purely hypothetical set-up. (Note: I have no idea if this is feasible)
I 4u rack or hosted box
1mbit connection
4+ 100Gb disks
2 1Gb disks for operating system.

I have used two disk for the operating system so that after the initial
set-up you physically set one of the disks to read only. I am not entirely
sure what parts of the filesystem that would need to go on there but if the
majority of your operating system is read only it would make it a little
harder for someone to do it any damage. 


Harry













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