> From: Ross Walker [mailto:rswwal...@gmail.com] > > Well besides databases there are VM datastores, busy email servers, busy > ldap servers, busy web servers, and I'm sure the list goes on and on. > > I'm sure it is much harder to list servers that are truly sequential in IO then > random. This is especially true when you have thousands of users hitting it.
Depends on the purpose of your server. For example, I have a ZFS server whose sole purpose is to receive a backup data stream from another machine, and then write it to tape. This is a highly sequential operation, and I use raidz. Some people have video streaming servers. And http/ftp servers with large files. And a fileserver which is the destination for laptop whole-disk backups. And a repository that stores iso files and rpm's used for OS installs on other machines. And data capture from lab equipment. And packet sniffer / compliance email/data logger. and I'm sure the list goes on and on. ;-) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
