Re: stable xfs

[Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:24 +0100, Peter Grandi wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:20:44 -0400, Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu> said:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> mingz> when u say large parallel storage system, you mean
> mingz> independent spindles right? but most people will have all
> mingz> disks configured in one RAID5/6 and thus it is not
> mingz> parallel any more.
> 
> As I was saying...
> 
>   pg> Most of the reports about ''corruption'' are consequences
>   pg> of not being aware of what it was designed for, how it
>   pg> works and how it should be used...
> 
>   mingz> [ .. ] example on what is an improper use?
>   pg> Well, this mailing list is full of them :-).
> 
>   pg> But then I have seen people building RAIDs stuffing in a
>   pg> couple dozen drives from the same shipping box, [ ... ]
> 
> :-)
> 
> BTW as to these:
> 
>   * A 64 bit system.
>   * With a large, parallel storage system.
>   * The block IO system handles all storage errors.
>   * With backups of the contents of the storage system.
> 
> I forgot a very essential one:
> 
>   * With lots of RAM, size proportional to that of the largest filesystem.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 

what kind of "ram vs fs" size ratio here will be a safe/good/proper one?
any rule of thumb? thanks!

hope not 1:1. :)

Ming