Rick Mann wrote:
I'm having a heckuva time posting to individual replies (keep getting
exceptions).
I have a 1U rackmount server with 4 bays. I don't think there's any way to
squeeze in a small IDE drive, and I don't want to reduce the swap transfer rate
if I can avoid it.
The machine has 4 500 GB SATA drives, 2 GB RAM, and an AMD Opteron 175 Denmark
2.2GHz CPU
The machine itself is a "TYAN B2865G20S4H Industry 19" rack-mountable 1U chassis
Barebone Server NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Socket 939 AMD Opteron Up to 1 GHz Hyper-Transport link
support FSB":
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16856152019
For the time being, these SATA disks will operate in IDE compatibility mode, so
don't worry about the write cache. There is some debate about whether the write
cache is a win at all, but that is another rat hole. Go ahead and split off
some
space for boot and swap. Put the rest in ZFS. Mirror for best all-around
performance.
I'm afraid I don't know much about the different peripheral controllers
available in the PC world (I'm a Mac guy), so I don't know if I've shot myself
in the foot with what I've bought.
Sadly, I think I'll just waste 500 GB of space for now; don't really see a
better solution. I may have to bail on the whole effort if I can't get all my
other apps running on b65 (Java, Resin, MySQL, etc).
Java and mysql are already integrated into Solaris. The only resin I use comes
from trees, not software developers :-).
-- richard
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