Re: Reiserfs with Samba vs NetApp Filer

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Russell Coker wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:00, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
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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.
>>>
>>>12 * 320G should solve the disk space issue for most people...
>>>      
>>>
>>The disk-space / cabeling-issue is mostly an IDE-problem anyway. If you
>>go SCSI/FC there is practically no limit on how much storage you can put
>>on a single server. (performance-issues aside)
>>
>>Sure, IDE is less expensive, but when comparing to NetApp there is
>>plenty of room to go for SCSI/FC - so diskspace should defenitively not
>>be an argument for going for NetApp.
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>>
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>Actually the problem then becomes case space.  On the linux IDE arrays list 
>there are a few people having 2 or more 3ware cards, they have 16 or more IDE 
>drives in a system.  With 24 inch cables they can get by with regular IDE 
>cabling (and S-ATA will solve this properly soon).  3ware cards allow support 
>for enough disks.  The problem then becomes what to house the disks in and 
>how to supply enough power.
>
>Here's the URL for subscribing to the IDE arrays list, I think that many 
>people here will be interested (Ragnar - you might want to make 3ware not be 
>the only IDE RAID hardware that's supported on the list).
>http://lists.math.uh.edu/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
>
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When I referred to disk space bound, I meant that users rarely have as 
many gigabytes as they need given the dollars that they are willing to 
spend.  One can always buy three servers if case space is limited.

Someday not too long from now, it will look like one filesystem even 
though it is in multiple cases.  Whether that is in reiser5 or reiser6 
depends on what sponsors fund first.

Hans