On December 3, 2004 11:07 am, "J. Rafael SÃnchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Lane wrote: > > On December 3, 2004 09:47 am, "J. Rafael SÃnchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I thank you all for your comments. If I were to buy a couple of external > >>firewire/sata/ide/raid cases with around 2TB capacity each, and attach > >>them to one or two of my existing [fastest] servers, would I be getting > >>a comparable solution? > > > > Yeah you can use external DAS boxes to make a current server into a NAS > > box that way. You could even offer server failover to some extent with > > this setup as most DAS boxes come with dual channel support. (IE if one > > of the servers hangs, the other server could takeover the file sharing.) > > > >>Also, we produce, not only lot's of data, but files that have started to > >>reach beyond the 2Gb threshold, an issued which I'm already having some > >>challenges with. It becomes a challenge to move them around. Would you > >>care to comment on that? > > > > You may want to consider something like jfs for your file system then. It > > handles large files better than ext3 or reiserfs. > > I don't think I've ever really given jfs any thought. I will certainly > investigate this further. I would think that I'd probably have to > compile it? I did a lsmod and grep and did not come up.
It's a kernel module that needs to be loaded. > > >>Has anyone had to deal with a similar situation and, if I may ask, how > >>do you deal with it? > > > > We supply lots of customers with NAS boxes to handle this. > > > >>I recently put a 64bit system together... and > >>installed FC3 on it...I've had some problems with it already, but that's > >>another complete different topic of discussion... > > > > We use and sell lots of opterons with out issues and FC3 is definitely > > the best OS out for that hardware. > > I see that you're in Edmonton. I will peruse through your website and, I > may contact you offlist. Would that be ok? > > There was one day last week that my box rebooted itself twice. I > discovered that cron was running a 'sa' "system accounting" job just > before the rebooting. Disabling this seem to help a bit, except that > shortly after I started to get "kernel panics" twice in the same day. > Doing a bit of reserch, it turned out that 'ssh' and probably 'ieee' are > buggy. Having users use an Xwin middleware, I was able to stabilize the > server. > > I keep watching it very closely now. It appears to be stable, but who > knows. -- Mark Lane, CET -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sales Manager -- Hard Data Ltd -- http://www.harddata.com T: 01-780-456-9771 -- F: 01-780-456-9772 11060 - 166 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5X 1Y3 --> Ask me about our New Dual and 4 Way Blade Servers <-- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
