[TriLUG] Fileservers questions.

[bp]

Ok.  The gratuitous greping will occur in /home on the RAID0 drives.  
Large file shares for xfers only will be on the 120gb drive.

No money to speak of - this gear was fleeced from old systems sitting idle 
in a lab.  The 120g drive was a stroke of luck from the equipment mgr.

-Barry


On 3 Jul 2003, David A. Cafaro wrote:

> Well sounds like you have a decent plan for the hardware you have, but
> if you have any cash I would make one recommendation.  Invest in a good
> ide raid card and instead of using one 120gb drive, I would buy 4 40gb
> drives (or larger if you wish) and put each on a separate channel on
> your raid card running in Raid 0.  That will greatly improve your fgrep
> searches through large file collections.  And as always as much ram as
> you can get (for Linux disk cache..).  Also if you are doing a lot of
> NFS or SMB file sharing, maybe using two nics and binding them (so they
> act as one but share the load) would be a good idea, and pretty cheap.
> 
> Those all involve more hardware, but if you have a little extra cash, I
> think those will make your users experience significantly better. 
> Otherwise, your plan sounds good for the hardware you have.
> 
> -David
> 
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:18, bp wrote:
> > My fileserver project has found more hardware now.  I'm hoping the 
> > performance guru's can give me a heads up on the best way to set it up.  
> > It will be used for two purposes, #1 server huge files (product/middleware 
> > installs)  #2 give users access to fgrep * search a large java source 
> > tree.  Nothing is that important, not concerned about fault tolerance or 
> > loss of data should something melt down.
> > 
> > The Gear I've collected
> > Dell P3-500 tower.
> > Primary IDE: 12g & 15g drive
> > Secondary IDE: 120g & cdrom
> > 3com 10/100 card
> > 
> > I figure the os will go on the two small drives & I'll create a huge 120g 
> > partition to do filesharing.
> > 
> > So for the two smaller drives I thought I'd a 1g swap partition and then 
> > RAID0 for a ~24g / partition.
> > 
> > Then format the 120g as a single ext2 partition.  Read somewhere that ext2 
> > performs faster than the ext3 or other JFS's.  (On UPS, so not too worried 
> > about hard resets & fsck time as someone recommended XFS for this reason.)
> > 
> > Any one have some better idea's?  Remember, I'm trying to get my team 
> > hooked on linux.
> > 
> > -bp 
> > 
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