As I mentioned in my original note, the system is a dual PIII-500
system that will be dedicated as a file server. So there is plenty
of cpu grunt to service a software RAID. I agree that the performance
numbers seem to lean heavily in favour of software RAID over the
currently available hardware RAID solutions for linux. I'm already
sold on that.
The question was....will any of the linux utilities (like fsck and
friends) choke on a 300gb partition? Is anyone on the list using
software RAID with a partition this large? If so, how large?
Regards,
Chris
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 3 12:00:49 1999
>
> I stand corrected. Most of the benchmarks I was referencing were for
> dual 300MHz Intel SMP systems or better as dedicated fileservers. I
> presume there are numerous servers out there that are not lucky enough
> to only have to serve NFS shares and/or are using non SMP boards with
> older/slower CPUs. If you want to offload the RAID processing from your
> main CPU(s), hardware is definitely the way to go. I simply have yet to
> see a benchmark for, say, a 5-drive U2 10Krpm RAID-0 that gets anywhere
> near the sustained rates with a RAID controller as opposed to
> software-level with a good multi-channel SCSI interface. Just my
> half-nybble.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley Trend CMHS
> Network Engineer http://www.trendcmhs.org
>
> > ----------
> > From: Kenneth Cornetet[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 11:20 AM
> > To: 'Stanley, Jeremy'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: partition size limit
> >
> [clip]
>
> > I have tried the DPT SmartRaid IV card (680X0 CPU, if memory serves)
> > and it is a DOG performance wise. Using 4 18GB Barracudas (10k RPM) in
> > RAID5 under Linux or NT I get about 3 MB/sec writes and 8 MB/sec
> > reads.
> > I have seen much better numbers from the Mylex 960 line and
> > particularly the ExtremeRaid line.
> >
> [snip]
>
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Christopher Mauritz
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