Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

2010-09-10 Thread Erez D
here is my 3 cents: In two companies i worked for, i designed similiar servers. 1. i wanted to have as less as a down time, and i didn't want to buy another server just to sit and wait for a failure, so i decided it should work on any pc with any raid controller - i decided to do the raid in soft

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

2010-09-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Linux LVM2 has been around for several years now. It can take and use snapshots, and I do it for the last three or so years on *production* sites. There are limitations, such as space utilization and performance, but the most significant one is that LVM snapshots are nowhere near NetApp snapshots.

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

2010-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/9/10 Etzion Bar-Noy : > Linux LVM2 has been around for several years now. It can take and use > snapshots, and I do it for the last three or so years on production sites. > There are limitations, such as space utilization and performance, but the > most significant one is that LVM snapshots ar

Re: CPU & RAM in a storage box

2010-09-10 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Nope. I did not say production. I said that if you want NetApp-style snapshots, use one of the mentioned file systems. I never said I actually used them for production, nor for anything at all (I don't) Ez On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2010/9/10 Etzion Bar-Noy : > > Linu