[2470] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Plans for this fiscal year
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 24 22:45:43 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:44:11 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
Okay, in an attempt to start answering Jonathon's question, I'd like
to make a proposal for what we want to do for AFS this year.
Right now we have three machines:
Machine Type Space Disks
------- ---- ----- -----
reynelda Sparc 5 8GB 2*4GB
ronald-ann DS5000 4GB 4*1GB
rosebud DS5000 6GB 4GB, 2GB
We had a problem adding a 4GB Seagate disk to rosebud; in three
incarnations, the disk became very slow. ronald-ann has a long-ish
SCSI chain, so I am hesitant to add devices there. So, we're looking
at two out of three machines being sort of dead-end.
So, I'd like to plan to, sometimes this year, replace ronald-ann with
a new-ASO-configuration sparc 5: a sparc 5 with two SCSI busses and
four 4GB disks. This will add 12GB to the cell, and get rid of one of
our Decstations (a good thing since Decstations will become harder to
support as time goes on). The four 1GB disks can be saved for spares.
I think that will run about $10,000 (I don't remember the figures for
file servers). I don't think we're likely to need to do anything else
with AFS this year if we go with this plan. (If we don't go with this
plan, we'll probably want to buy more disk some time this year.)
