Ok. The gratuitous greping will occur in /home on the RAID0 drives. Large file shares for xfers only will be on the 120gb drive.
No money to speak of - this gear was fleeced from old systems sitting idle in a lab. The 120g drive was a stroke of luck from the equipment mgr. -Barry On 3 Jul 2003, David A. Cafaro wrote: > Well sounds like you have a decent plan for the hardware you have, but > if you have any cash I would make one recommendation. Invest in a good > ide raid card and instead of using one 120gb drive, I would buy 4 40gb > drives (or larger if you wish) and put each on a separate channel on > your raid card running in Raid 0. That will greatly improve your fgrep > searches through large file collections. And as always as much ram as > you can get (for Linux disk cache..). Also if you are doing a lot of > NFS or SMB file sharing, maybe using two nics and binding them (so they > act as one but share the load) would be a good idea, and pretty cheap. > > Those all involve more hardware, but if you have a little extra cash, I > think those will make your users experience significantly better. > Otherwise, your plan sounds good for the hardware you have. > > -David > > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:18, bp wrote: > > My fileserver project has found more hardware now. I'm hoping the > > performance guru's can give me a heads up on the best way to set it up. > > It will be used for two purposes, #1 server huge files (product/middleware > > installs) #2 give users access to fgrep * search a large java source > > tree. Nothing is that important, not concerned about fault tolerance or > > loss of data should something melt down. > > > > The Gear I've collected > > Dell P3-500 tower. > > Primary IDE: 12g & 15g drive > > Secondary IDE: 120g & cdrom > > 3com 10/100 card > > > > I figure the os will go on the two small drives & I'll create a huge 120g > > partition to do filesharing. > > > > So for the two smaller drives I thought I'd a 1g swap partition and then > > RAID0 for a ~24g / partition. > > > > Then format the 120g as a single ext2 partition. Read somewhere that ext2 > > performs faster than the ext3 or other JFS's. (On UPS, so not too worried > > about hard resets & fsck time as someone recommended XFS for this reason.) > > > > Any one have some better idea's? Remember, I'm trying to get my team > > hooked on linux. > > > > -bp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
