From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 09:00:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16613 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:00:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (kdhome-2.pr.mcs.net [205.164.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16602 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.1/8.8.2) id KAA27671; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:59:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981029105943.A27659@Denninger.Net> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:59:43 -0600 From: Karl Denninger To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Hallam Oaks , "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm References: <19981029105316.A27621@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew N. Dodd on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:57:30AM -0500 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers will be LARTed and the remains fed to my cat Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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