Danny Nicholas wrote: > You would think this, but I've seen asterisk create 100 or more dumps in an > hour of 10+Mb. Depending on Inode size, etc., this situation could push a > system into a "hurting" capacity rather quickly. Also, many shops use older > technology and compound this by RAID striping, which can reduce your > effective capacity by up to 70%. Just an observation. > > 100 crashes an hour is one thing, that will fill up somewhat quicker, but still, it's only slightly less than a gig per hour, it'd be days before most modern system started to run out of space if they have the entire drive formatted under /
I have a e-mail system on 100GB RAID 5 system (4 36GB drives) that has never run out of inodes and it's receiving a few hundred files per minute, heck, looking at it it's only using 5% of inodes for 50GB of small e-mail files. You'd have to be running some old Red Hat (pre 8) to have a standard ext3 format not have enough inodes (for a mail server). I really don't see any reason to run RAID 5 on an Asterisk server when mirroring might be a better option and it'd give you faster overall file IO. I'd hate to see a four or five drive RAID 5 system rebuild if it had > 100GB drives, a coat of paint probably dries faster. -Ron _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
