[Foundation-l] Wikistats is back

[Aryeh Gregor]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Interesting. I realize that the dump is extremely large, but if 7zip is
> really the bottleneck then to me the solutions are straightforward:
>
> 1. Offer an uncompressed version of the dump for download. Bandwidth is
> cheap and downloads can be resumed, unlike this dump process
> 2. The WMF offers a service whereby the mail the uncompressed dump to you on
> a hard drive. You pay for the drive and a service charge.

I'm pretty sure that both of those would be less straightforward than
actually fixing the dump process properly.  That something isn't
getting done doesn't necessarily mean that new plans for fixing it are
needed -- it could be that the current plan is best but needs more
resources.

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:46 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Long-winded, but all we need is to custom-build a hard disk duplicator
> for I/O efficiency.

Such things already exist.  They're called "hot-swappable RAID 1".