> So some sort of distributed file system seems the best option, and a
> lot cheaper and a lot faster than a dedicated fileserver
> that will not be able to keep up.
a) ZFS doesn't use hardware raid. at all. ever.
b) 500MB/s (actually 1GB/s) of I/O will chew up a quite large amount
of resource. J
2012/8/17 Vincent Diepeveen :
> The homepage looks very commercial and they have a free trial on it.
> You refer to the free trial?
http://nexentastor.org/ - Sorry wrong link. Its a commercially backed
open source project.
> Means buy raid controller. That's extra cost. That depends upon what
> i
On Aug 18, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 12:04 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>> Yes i realize that. In principle you're looking at a 1050 files or so
>> that get effectively generated
>> and to generate each file half a dozen of huge files get created.
>>
>> Now in t
On Aug 18, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> 2012/8/17 Vincent Diepeveen :
>> The homepage looks very commercial and they have a free trial on it.
>> You refer to the free trial?
>
> http://nexentastor.org/ - Sorry wrong link. Its a commercially backed
> open source project.
>
>> Means buy
On 08/17/2012 12:04 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
> Yes i realize that. In principle you're looking at a 1050 files or so
> that get effectively generated
> and to generate each file half a dozen of huge files get created.
>
> Now in theory generating them is embarrassingly parallel except that to
>
