A few notes:
1) We have been using Linux NFS here for years. Once you have it running it
appears to be rock-solid. We've even NFS mounted a filesystem, from another
server, and then shared it out over Samba, to client workstations. This was
a production configuration and it lasted for years, until the need was gone.
2) Hardware RAID, of course, works<g>.
3) While I have not done this with the RAID tools using RAID5, I have a
production database running on RAID1. I share this out to a gateway machine,
with NFS, which re-shares this out to a controlled sub-net, using Samba, for
administration purposes. It's been stable for over six months. The DBMS
machine is running a Linux 2.2.11 kernel, with the raid patches. The drives
are a pair of 6.5GB UDMA/33's. The DBMS is PGSQL v6.5 and supports our
Apache-SSL-mod_perl and Apache-SSL-PHP3 web servers.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dong Hu
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 9:03 AM
> To: raid
> Subject: Linux Raid5 and NFS, how stable an reliable?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We need about 200G hard disk space for software a development
> environment. I am considering of using linux-raid5 configuration.
> We will use nfs to share the disk on 100 Ethernet Lan.
>
> My concern is, how stable an reliable is linux NFS and raid5?
> Any experience of using this in a production environment?
> The speed is not so critical.
>
> I plan to use nine 18.2G or 36G Ultra2 SCSI hard disks(7200rpm
> Seagate or Quantum) and configure as raid5.
>
> If I can't get positive feedback, we may go to SUN Solstice
> DiskSuite, which is what we are using and is quite reliable.
>
> Thanks for any opinions.
>
> Dong
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