Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:59:43 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Hallam Oaks <mlnn4@oaks.com.au>, "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Message-ID: <19981029105943.A27659@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810291155040.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from Matthew N. Dodd on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:57:30AM -0500 References: <19981029105316.A27621@Denninger.Net> <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810291155040.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:57:30AM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > > Hmmm... I'll look into this. We haven't gotten tag reduction warnings > > on any of our NFS fileservers using these, nor on our INN machine > > (which uses them in RAID 0+1 config). > > You'd proably only see it in RAID5 mode or if you were -really- beating on > your array. Still, with that much memory they should make # of tags > supported a tunable. We beat the SHIT out of our arrays, and the big NFS servers run in RAID 5 mode :-) > I really want to find a cheap CRD-5440 just for kicks. 1 host and 2 disk > channels is just right for a small server. Yep. Actually, the 5440 has 4 channels :-) ~$2500 or so. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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