darren wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for all the very informative bits on this thread.
In my usage, I intend to implement this fileserver to complement another
server that runs a very intensive small files read/write operation.
These files often run into 200,000 or more but are usually in the range
of 100kb or less.
Hence, space is not a big issue to me, but performance is. (there's no
point splitting out the IO from the main server if it runs slower!!).
I will be using an spare server to do this job: Dell Xeon 2GHz with 5 x
72Gb SCSI hdd (I got on board RAID but have not decided on how to
configure yet -help here are welcome too!).
My options are: Win2k (NTFS with CIFS), Linux (Reiserfs with Samba) or
Netapp 870.
What do you guys think?
Thanx again
Darren
Turn off tails if you want good performance for V3.
