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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Reiserfs with Samba vs NetApp Filer
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:59:10 +0400
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To: Russell Coker <bofh@coker.com.au>
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Russell Coker wrote:

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>>I should also mention that actually most of these fileservers are disk
>>space bound not performance bound for most of their users, at least that
>>was true when I was a sysadmin back in the old days....
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>I think that's about to change (if it hasn't already).  3ware sells RAID 
>controllers that do 8 or 12 drives.  200G ATA drives are now on sale, and 
>320G drives will be available soon.
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>12 * 320G should solve the disk space issue for most people...
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I don't think users will ever have enough disk space....