Some of you may remember questions from me last year about setting up a Linux file server. Well results have been good and we have some new Linux fans now. With that success comes new hardware. Out is my recycled P3-500 and IDE drives and in with a newer Netfinity complete with 2Ghz Xeon-HT and 6 15k rpm 36.7GB U320 drives.
Now the question is revisited on how to tune this sucker into a fast reliable department server. Use Plan: http, smb, and ftp serving of files in the 20mb to 700mb range. Some user compiling (java) activities at times too. File serving is really for two directories: /staging (est. 30-40gb; basic redundancy & off-box backups) /media (100gb; expendable convenience share, probably lone 120gb IDE drive again ) Below is my current quick burn-in config and I have a couple questions from it already: 1) Any advantage to the RAID0 swap partition over two disks? RAID0 performance boost make up for the S/W overhead of RAID0? 2) How does linux software RAID5 work for dissimilarly size SOFTWARE RAID slices? See sdb vs. the rest of / members. 3) Should the OS really run under RAID5? I can afford a little downtime to reinstall an OS; and restore config backups. I'm just looking for some redundancy on home directories and /staging. Current setup for burn-in: [sda] 200m /boot 1500m md0-raid0 swap [sdb] 1500m md0-raid0 swap 32g md1-raid5 / [sdc] 36g md1-raid5 / [sdd] 36g md1-raid5 / [sde] 36g md1-raid5 / [sdf] 36g md1-raid5 / How would you guys slice up this box to fill our need? Thanks. And yes I know RAID is not backup. -Barry -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
