RE: [ProgSoc] Storage Media

[Jedd <jedd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

 ] I should cross-post to whinge@nospam.progsoc - my name is Alister...

 {humbled look}

 ] If you give something to one group of students, it must be available to
 ] all students.  It's an equity-of-access thing.. who's to say that (for
 ] example) postgraduates need their own space on a server more than
 ] undergraduates would?

 This is something I'm probably simply not capable of understanding.
 Perhaps due to my experience as a part-time student at UTS.  Next
 you'll be suggesting yachts for everyone!  ;)
 
 ] Each server is a copy of the others... you'd have to play around with the
 ] replication software and split up the locations of files.  A user would
 ] authenticate to the tree (btw, setting up accounts for 22k students?!?)

 Oh - so the data is replicated ?  You've got 5 Novell servers (did someone
 say 5 before?) and they're all exact copies of each other?  What a
 bizarre idea.  How big are these boxes?  Why are they replicated?  Why
 would you necessarily use the existing Netware infrastructure to provide
 individual space for 22k students?  I know you don't have (nor should
 you be responsible for) the answers to all these .. but with what's been
 revealed so far, I'm overwhelmed with questions.

 (Do any com-sci / IT subjects ever set as an assignment a task of
 re-designing the UTS network ?)

 ] and then access their documents from whichever server.  But what if you're
 ] acessing files from Magpie (at Kuring-gai) and you're at Broadway?
 ] There's already a noticeable delay from time to time saving files to
 ] Quokka (my server) from PCs on the same subnet... but across campuses on a
 ] 2Mb/sec link?

 Uhm - what kind of files are you suggesting here?  As in what kinds of
 sizes?  I'm presuming we're talking small (well under 2Mb) generally.  

 A lot of people do a lot more with a lot thinner pipe than 2Mb.

 ] Snowgum and Ironbark are backed up.

 That was a tongue-in-cheek comment.  Anton bit.  :)  Anyways ... just offer
 all-care-taken, etc, or invest in a gratuitous piece of DLT hardware.  It's
 probably a bit of a non-issue anyways.  No one ever *really* bothers with
 backups.

 Jedd.

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