Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2958] Vanilla-3.0pl0?

[Tom Holub <doosh@best.com>]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:48:23PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Quoting Dave Ahn (ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu):
> > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:19:25PM -0800, Tom Holub wrote:
> > > > compatibility functions to merge the stats at run-time.  The downside is
> > > > that the player DB files would become huge.
> > > 
> > > Define "huge".  You can buy a 50-gig disk for $500.
> > 
> > Under two order of magnitude...
> > 
> 
> Yes, but a good admin knows that 50Gb of disk means you need to potentially
> backup that 50Gb of disk, which means larger tape drives, more tapes or
> someone to switch 24Gb tapes so you can get the entire drive for backup.
> 
> OR
> 
> An increase in LAN traffic as you backup that machine's 50Gb disk to a tape
> silo across the LAN.

Backup is a problem, but even that is getting cheaper.  My point is,
if we're talking about a 100 MB player database, that's huge compared
to netrek's current scheme, but it's small by any modern standard.
If we're talking about 10 GB, that's a problem.
 -Tom