I'm in the process of setting up a system for my company and need a bit
of advice. We'd like to have a huge flat filesystem connected to a dual
processor RH 6.0 system. I've got a dual PIII-500 system with 256mb RAM
and dual Adaptec LVD scsi controllers. I was planning to plop the OS
on a mirrored set of 9gig drives (one on each controller) and then stripe
6 50gig barracudas (3 on each controller) as one big 300gb filesystem.
Has anyone tried this yet? Will things like fsck still work on a
filesystem this large?
I'm able to get the 50gig disks rather cheaply (about US$1150) so this
seems like a really inexpensive way to build a huge file store without
paying a huge Network Appliance/EMC type of premium. The system is going
to be backed up daily. I'm more concerned with total space and
read/write performance than redundancy (which is why I'm using RAID 0
instead of 3 or 5).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Chris
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Christopher Mauritz
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