[407] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Useless AFS volumes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sun Mar 24 00:27:02 1991
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 91 00:26:41 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-afsreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Duda's message of Sat, 23 Mar 91 22:39:23 -0500,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Ken: FYI, stuff like this should probably go to sipb-afsreq instead of
the sipb list at large. If you're really interested in this, let me
know and I can give you the quick summary about what you need to know to
be an AFS administrator.
The reason why they we have read-only volumes for all of those volumes
was because they were on volume e, which is an Athens drive. There was
a lot of distrust about whether or not the Athens drive was reliable, so
another Athens drive which Athena wasn't using was "borrowed", and we
cloned the volumes on them. However, since we're not releasing the
read-only volumes very often, the read-only volumes aren't useful;
they're probably horribly out of date right now. Getting rid of them is
probably an ok idea.
SIPB should probably think about getting more disk space, though. A 1
gig scsi drive from HP (with a 5 year warranty) costs about $2650. SIPB
has only spent around $3000 this year, and it's near the end of the
fiscal year. We can probably justify it by saying that it's not too
clear how long the RT drives will last, and if there's money available
this fiscal year, we should get the drive now.
- Ted
