[ale] New Server & Discussion Topic

[Robert L. Harris]

I actually messed with this when it was released.  It worked but it was
slow due to the nature of gmail.  One thing we thought of doing was to
use multiple gmail accounts (I have 50, want some????) and RAID5 them.
You could do this as well with the LVM.  Just make sure to lay them out
right so that you get the speed from the stripes.

Robert

Thus spake Chris Farris (jcf at primeharbor.com):

> 
> ALE.org has been moved to a new server with a hopefully faster hardware
> platform. The old PII VA donated to ALS back in the last millenium just
> wasn't cutting it any more.
> 
> I want to thank E^DeltaCom for providing our complementary hosting. 
> 
> Now, for the discussion topic. Someone already has created a GmailFS
> module for the kernel (actually it sits in userland and interfaces to
> the kernel with FUSE). I want to use Gmail as a low level disk
> partition. This way I can get multiple gmail accounts, and LVM them into
> one larger FS. Or even better with Earthlink and Yahoo offering or soon
> to offer their own gigmail services, maybe even stripe them across
> multiple providers and then LVM them into one large FS. 
> 
> This is my cheap way of backing up my 250GB MP3 Collection.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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