<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:11 PM, JEDIDIAH <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Now my master backend is a big ugly thing meant to be as convenient as<br>
possible. ($600 for the basic system, $150 for the hot swap rack, plus the<br>
cost of drives)<br></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Quite so. My master backend lives in a VM on my file server. It's a big ugly beast, but it also has the hot-swap racks and such to make maintence easy. 8 total drive bays with 4 more planned when I get money to order the drives. Primary OS is OpenSolaris as I wanted ZFS. The VM is running Ubuntu 9.10 with Myth and the netboot server. The Frontends are diskless. If I were to buy the Revo boxes, I'd remove the HDD and netboot them. The HDD would become a backup tape. :) <br>