On Sat June 7 2008 08:32:27 Mag Gam wrote: > I haven't even approached the file system level yet. The application is a > basic fileserver which will host our professor's mechanical engineering > images. These images can be anywhere from 20MB to 300MB so I would consider > them "normal files". > > I am hoping some hardware people can chime in about the RAID configuration > first. I have plenty of RAM on the server (12GB), and a fast RAID > controller so I would like to get this going first then I will worry about > the file system. Unless, people feel this is a holistic approach.
FWIW, I work in the other direction. Consideration of applications and data - and of performance, reliability and simplicity - lead to consideration of possible plans for filesystems, swap, LVM, and RAID. You might also want to Google or check the list archives for a discussion of the relative merits of s/w versus h/w RAID. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
