[clug-talk] Storage Area Networks - Network attached Storage Solutions?

["J. Rafael Sánchez"]

Kevin Anderson wrote:
> On Friday 03 December 2004 09:47, "J. Rafael Sánchez" wrote:
> 
>>I thank you all for your comments. If I were to buy a couple of external
>>firewire/sata/ide/raid cases with around 2TB capacity each, and attach
>>them to one or two of my existing [fastest] servers, would I be getting
>>a comparable solution?
> 
> 
> Personally, if I was setting up a situation where several servers depended on 
> 1 set of disks, I would want an OS that doesn't do anything except serve up 
> those disks.  So I'd connect the array to a separate box with nothing really 
> running except the NFS Server.  That would greatly reduce the liklihood of 
> anything crashing.

Agree.
> 
> 
>>Also, we produce, not only lot's of data, but files that have started to
>>reach beyond the 2Gb threshold, an issued which I'm already having some
>>challenges with. It becomes a challenge to move them around. Would you
>>care to comment on that?
> 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
> 
> I'm a huge fan of Reiser.  That's the direction I'd go in.
> 
Isn't Reiser for small files? I looked at the table from that link, and 
it says that "max file size" for ext3 is 16GB-2TB, why is it that RH9 
cannot handle them. Is it something I'm not doing right when I configure 
my servers? I thought large file system was enabled.
> 
>>Has anyone had to deal with a similar situation and, if I may ask, how
>>do you deal with it? I recently put a 64bit system together... and
>>installed FC3 on it...I've had some problems with it already, but that's
>>another complete different topic of discussion...
> 
> 
> If you're running a production system, I wouldn't do it on a semi-supported 
> distro.  This isn't really meant as a dig, but the truth is that FC is there 
> to get people started using Red Hat, and you're in Red Hat territory, not 
> FC's.  I suspect you'd see alot of support messages which might indicate 
> something along those lines from a quasi-commercial distro.  This is based on 
> support given for the free version of smoothwall.
> 
> In my first paragraph, I suggested an NFS server.  I stand by that comment, 
> but I'm not certain on the file size limits that NFS would handle.  So test 
> that before listening to me.  :)  Unless someone else can comment.
> 
> Also note that there can be problems beyond the ones in the FS.  You may find 
> that things like zip will die on files beyond the 2TB size range. 
Yeah that's right.
> 
> Kev.
> 
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