You didn't say what applications this thing is going to support.
That does matter. A lot. One thing worth looking at is AFS,
or maybe MR-AFS. And now OpenAFS.
-Mitch
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> While talking to a friend about what his company is planning to do,
> I found out that he is planning a 70TB filesystem/servers/cluster/db.
> (Yes, seventy t-e-r-a-b-y-t-e...)
>
> Apparently, he has files that go up to 2gb each, and actually require
> such a horribly sized cluster.
>
> If he wanted a PC cluster, and having 5TB on each PC, he would have
> 350 machines to maintain. From past experience maintaining clusters,
> I guarantee that he will have at least 1 box failing every other day.
> And I really do not think his idea of using NFS is that good. ;-)
>
> Now if we were to go to the high-end route (and probably more cost
> effective), we can pick SAN's, large Sun fileservers, or somesuch.
> I still cannot picture him being able to maintain file integrity.
>
> I say that he should attempt to split his filesystems into much
> smaller chunks, say 1TB each. And attempt some way of having a RAID5
> array. Mirroring or other RAID configurations would prove too costly.
> What would you guys do in this case? :)
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