On May 9, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Jonathan Disher wrote: > I cant speak for Will, but I'm actually going against recommendations, my > systems have three 20TB RAID 6 arrays, with two 10TB ext4 filesystems per > array. > > The problems you will encounter keeping machines performing well after they > get internally unbalanced following disk failures and replacements (and > keeping machines online with non-standard configs, missing disks, etc) will > drive you nuts. It drives me nuts.
This sounds more like you just don't have enough nodes if you are that concerned about single machine performance. :)