I'm looking at possibly deploying a Dell PowerEdge 4300 (dual PIII-500) as
essentially a really big NFS file server. It'll be a good drive away from
me, so I'm wondering if anyone is already using one of these with Linux,
and if SMP is totally stable (or at least as stable as UP) under heavy
load for disk and network i/o. If there are still SMP stability issues,
it may make more sense to go single PIII-600.
The proposed config is a Mylex ExtremeRAID, 8 9gb LVD disks, and probably
one additional Intel Pro100 ethernet interface. I'll try it out as a 7
disk RAID5 with hot spare, and if I don't think random i/o is fast enough,
possibly fall back to RAID10.
I may also look into building something similar, but I don't know of any
similar platforms (8 hot-swap disks, redundant hot-swap power) other than
Intel's high end Xeon box with 12 hot-swap drive bays split across 2
channels. I'll probably price one of those out, but I'm guessing it'll be
costly.
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