From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: Christian Herzog <horeizo@phys.ethz.ch>,
isg@phys.ethz.ch, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS errors on large Infiniband fileserver setup
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:19:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924151908.314cf3b4@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923235355.GO2614@dastard>
Le Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:53:55 +1000
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> écrivait:
> IMO, it is unneccessarily complex - you could easily do this (~30
> drives) with a single server with a couple of external SAS JBOD
> arrays and SAS RAID controllers. That would give you the same
> performance (or better), with many fewer points of failure (both
> hardware and software), use less rack space, and probably be
> significantly cheaper....
And it will use less power, too. Actually there are Supermicro chassis
with up to 40 drives in 4U, so you don't even need an external disk
enclosure.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 7:22 XFS errors on large Infiniband fileserver setup Christian Herzog
2010-09-23 10:01 ` Christian Herzog
2010-09-23 10:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-23 11:52 ` Christian Herzog
2010-09-23 13:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-23 14:10 ` Christian Herzog
2010-09-23 23:53 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-24 5:41 ` Christian Herzog
2010-09-24 8:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-24 13:19 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-24 13:19 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2010-09-27 5:49 ` Christian Herzog
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