From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Reiserfs with Samba vs NetApp Filer Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:31:29 +0400 Message-ID: <3DA5B971.3040400@namesys.com> References: <001b01c26fff$26d23850$0101a8c0@bummer> <20021010165854.4381ed7e.philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-9"; format="flowed" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Philippe_Gramoull=E9?= Cc: darren , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Philippe Gramoull=E9 wrote: >Hi, > >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:48:34 +0800 >"darren" wrote: > > | Hi all, > | =20 > | I was just wondering if I should spend $$ (my company's of cos) on a > | NetApp filer... > | =20 > | OR > | =20 > | I just get one of the Dell 3650 doing nothing in the corner with RAID5 > | and run Samba as a fileserver? > | =20 > | Anyone got any benchmarks to compare the two? > | =20 > | Is NetApp as good as its advertised? > >We switched from NetApp to DELL ( PowerVault 210S ) mainly because of the = $$ :o) > >NetApp are really good but really expensive as well.So it depend how much = value >you give to your data. > I would say that WAFL is an absolutely superb filesystem for the purpose=20 of RAID NFS fileserving. Reiser4 may give it some serious competition=20 after some time has passed and we have time for such things as carefully=20 benchmarking NFS, etc., but WAFL is a great filesystem for NFS RAID as=20 it is right now. That said, mp3.com saved $22 million dollars by using=20 Linux+reiserfs instead of Netapps and Veritas. They may be good, but=20 reiser3 is cheaper. A lot cheaper. Do the math, and you'll buy Linux=20 instead I think.;-) Nobody has done reiser3 vs. WAFL benchmarks. > >Netapp as well have tons of features that linux boxes +PV210S can't do :C= lustering >volume copy, out out the box snapshots,etc.. > Linux has snapshots if you use lvm, but it is true that Netapp makes a=20 good product. > > | =20 > | Any comments on this setup is welcomed > >Now i think DELL realease their 220S with 14 disks in a shelf so that woul= d have the bang >for your bucks. On the otherside, NetApp comes with a very nice , propriet= ary , OS that's quite >simple to use. > >So best price/performance =3D> DELL >If you have unvaluable data =3D> NetApp (+ backup :o) > > | =20 > | Regards > | Darren > | =20 > > >Philippe. > > > =20 >