Someone asked about a large scale "success story" recently. This from lkml; unfortunately they didn't hint what their application is. ----- Forwarded message from Eduardo Soriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Eduardo Soriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:23:31 +0100 Subject: Large Linux Server sucessfull installation For Linux Community Site Installation Report LINUX 2.0.36 RedHat 5.2 - ------------------------ Main system Motherboard Asus 440BX Dual Pentium 450MHz 512KB Cache 512MB RAM Integrated Adaptec 7890 Chipset Utltra 2 Graphic adaptor ATI UltraII AGP 3Com 3C905 10/100 Mb Two Mylex FlashPoint LT One Mylex eXtremeRaid 1100 Keyboard, mouse (unused as system working as a server) Disks devices Integrated Adaptec 7890 9GB Ultra2 System disk 9GB Ultra2 Application disk 9GB Ultra2 Work disk 9GB Ultra2 Save disk FlashPoint LT 1 DLT 40/70 HP SureStore device DAT 8GB HP SureStore Flashpoint LT 2 HP SureStore MagnetoOptical Jukebox 40GB 2 drives HP SureStore MagnetoOptical JukeBox 200GB 2 drives eXtremeRaid 1100 DAC1164P 3 Channels Firmware 5.06-0-52 Utility 4.78-08 10 disks 36GB each divided as following: 0 140956 5 Drives Write Thru 1 140956 5 Drives Write Thru 9 of these disks are handled into an external cabinet 1 disk was into the main processor box. When file system created: 8 file system of 36GB each. This is an example of File systems hadled by Pack 2: Disk /dev/rd/c0d1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 17968 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/rd/c0d1p1 1 4492 36081958+ 83 Linux native /dev/rd/c0d1p2 4493 8984 36081990 83 Linux native /dev/rd/c0d1p3 8985 13476 36081990 83 Linux native /dev/rd/c0d1p4 13477 17968 36081990 83 Linux native Swap area: 4 partitions of 100MB each Special used drivers: DAC960 2.0.0 Beta 4 from www.dandelion.com Special thanks to Leonard N. Zubkoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for the quality and reliability of this new driver. Special used software: fdisk v2.8 caontained with DAC960 driver MTX 0.07 package from www.dandelion.com/Linux (again Leonard) Tests completed without problem to report: Save of 40GB on DLT tape and retrieval Fill up a 36GB file system, copy it on another file system, compare both file systems, delete target file system contents (rm -r) Unplug a disk meanwhile system copying. Replace this "damaged" disk by a new disk. Power off the system meanwhile heavly used. Recover time: 30 minutes for a 36 GB file system full of data. (there are 8 file systems) Hardware pending troubles: The external cabinet has room for 9 disks. The 10th disk was installed into the main processor box. All disks were linked together using eXtremeRaid 1100 channel 1. Unable to prepare the System disks from the 2 5 disks packs. We got all the time: disk nn goes offline We linked the 9 external disks to the eXtemeRaid 1100 using channel 2 meanwhile we keep the internal disk on channel 1 Channel 3 is free. Software pending troubles: FDISK 2.8 (dandelion version size 158979) Accepted the above geometry, but is not able to reread it. Declares all the time: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4942. No impact on mke2fs as long we know the declared disk geometry (write that on paper, keep it in a safe place) This system is working perflectly since 5 days. Should you need additional or detailed information, please feel free to e-mail/contact me. E. Soriano Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ------------------------------ End of linux-kernel-digest V1 #3575 *********************************** To subscribe to linux-kernel-digest, send the command: subscribe linux-kernel-digest in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-linux-kernel": subscribe linux-kernel-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "linux-kernel-digest" in the commands above with "linux-kernel". ----- End forwarded message ----- -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/