*countable infinities only

[Jon Ciesla]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 05/31/2012 10:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 15:07 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>>>>> Yes, all these would currently support what I'm suggesting.
>>>> Actually, if you're willing to flip a lot of switches, you
>>>> could probably make your / a raid5 of floppies, but the
>>>> performance would be suboptimal.
>>>>
>>>> -J
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, now you're just being silly.
>>
>> Behold:
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/
>
> Hey,
>>
> you might be joking but I used to demo MD RAID in Red Hat classes
> using a dinky little 4-port USB1 hub (with a Shadowman logo) and four
> Red Hat branded USB keys.
>
> Worked great :-)

Actually, with enough PCI USB port cards, USB hubs, and thumb drives,
you could use MD RAID and possibly LVM to make a poor-person's SAN.
Hot-swappable drives and all.

-J

> Regards,
> Bryn.
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