Hi Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Benjamin Scott writes: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am new to ReiserFS, and this list, so my apologies for posting a > > possibly annoying message, but I am looking at putting ReiserFS into > > production soon, and I would like to run a few things by the experts here. > > (I also have some questions regarding mkreiserfs and hash functions, but I > > will post that separately.) > > > > First, let me post our configuration profile, just in case there are any > > known issues that I did not find in my research: > > > > Processors : 2 x 550 MHz Pentium II Xeon (SMP) > > Memory : 1 GB RAM, 2 GB swap > > Storage : 605 gigabytes total > > Controller : AMI MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 > > > > Base system: Red Hat Linux 6.2 + errata updates > > C library : glibc 2.1.3 (Red Hat release 22) > > C compiler : egcs 1.1.2 (Red Hat release 30) > > Kernel : Linux 2.2.19, custom compile, pristine sources plus patches > > Patches : AMI MegaRAID driver 1.15 > > Stephen Tweedie's raw I/O (kiobuf) 2.2.18pre24 > > LVM 1.0 > > ReiserFS 3.5.34 (linux-2.2.19-reiserfs-3.5.34-patch.gz) > > FS Tools : reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j > > Get latest tools from > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/pre/reiserfsprogs-3.x.0k-pre9.tar.gz > Please stay with 3.x.0j. If that will fail - then describe a problem and we will find which of prereleased reiserfsprogs-es you should take. Thanks, vs > > > > > Our customer is using the system for bulk file storage and scientific > > processing. They dump large chunks of data (10 to 20 MB files) from > > instruments onto the system. Then they chew it heavily, either locally, or > > over the LAN via Samba. Intermediate data (*lots* of smaller files) and > > final results are stored as well. > > > > During our migration from ext2 to ReiserFS, we plan on employing the LVM > > and the ReiserFS resize tools available. We will start with a logical > > volume (LV) of about 300 GB. After existing ext2 filesystems are phased > > out, we will add their storage to the LV, and grow the ReiserFS by about 200 > > GB, to a total of about 500 GB. > > > > I am undecided as to whether or not I want to try the "online resize" > > feature of ReiserFS; does anyone have any input on that issue? > > > > We will have multiple full tape backups available for disaster recovery > > purposes, but I would like to avoid a disaster if at all possible. :-) > > > > Does anyone see any problems with any of this? > > > > Thanks! > > Nikita. > > > > > -- > > Ben Scott | Net Technologies, Inc. | 978-462-8795 > > Network Engineer | Salisbury, MA, USA | 866-NTI-LINUX (684-5468) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ntilinux.com | Fax: 978-499-7839 > >
