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> > I have tried the DPT SmartRaid IV card (680X0 CPU, if mem
into
the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981
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> From: Kenneth Cornetet[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 11:20 AM
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Title: RE: partition size limit
I have tried the DPT SmartRaid IV card (680X0 CPU, if memory serves) and it is a DOG performance wise. Using 4 18GB Barracudas (10k RPM) in RAID5 under Linux or NT I get about 3 MB/sec writes and 8 MB/sec reads.
I have seen much better numbers from the Mylex
| I think you meant 'if you're NOT really concerned about performance.'
| The benchmarks I've seen for array controllers come nowhere near the
| performance of a software-based array on a simple SMP server. For one
| thing, the processor on, say, a DPT or ICP RAID controller is nowhere
| near as
homecomputer; beam myself into
the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981
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I'm also interested in this topic. I'm going to setup RAID-1 over 36GB
disks in a single partition. Is there any problem with the size of disks?
TIA,
Gerry.
Chris Mauritz wrote:
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 files
|Has anyone tried this yet? Will things like fsck still work on a
|filesystem this large?
sure, but it'll take a REALLY long time. I believe that reiserfs is out
now, you may want to look into that. (it's journalled as I remember,
so fscks (unless forced) aren't necessary.) optionally, ext3 o
