[256] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Ronald-Ann
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Thu Jul 26 23:05:15 1990
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 23:05:03 -0400
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-afsreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@mit.edu
The SIPB AFS cell should be updated to 3.0Release. (I think it's now
running 3.0b2.) The backup software has had lots of bugs fixed in the
later version, and is incompatible with the server software we're
running now.
Also, we have to consider what we're going to do (if anything) about
/vicepe, the Athens drive. It is still logging some errors. The
drive is still the old one we were having trouble with. Ideally, we'd
scrap the Athens drive and only use disks we can count on :-).
BTW, I hear that according to an ad in MacWeek, Wren (scsi) drives are
available for 678Meg: $2,600, 1Gig: $3,700. If we needed to, we could
add another gigabyte per year. :-)
Coming back down to earth, I think we need to look at our usage of
disks in the AFS cell, and put only the "expendable" volumes (eg:
read-only copies and those which very rarely change) on the Athens
drive (/vicepe), and accept that the drive will give us a lot of
trouble, and possibly die without an available replacement.
