[nylug-talk] Big filesystem recommendation - which one?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 03:36:46PM -0400, jh wrote:
> The hardware hasn't been purchased yet, so I'm open to suggestions, 
> although I do have my shopping list...
> 
> http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=349
> Tyan Intel Mobo - if this isn't compatible, well, I'll won't be looking 
> back while I'm loading Linux :)
> 
> RAID/JBOD controller will be:
> 
> http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9650.asp
> 
> I'm guessing that this is, in fact, a problem. I also know that you 
> don't need fancy RAID hardware for ZFS, right? That'd I'd be better off 
> with a bunch of non-raid SATA ports...not sure that I can get a few 
> extra ports into the budget.

If your budget is up to it, you could/should also consider a sun x4500
(it will leave you room to grow, runs solaris+linux pretty well),
smaller netapp/bluearc, etc. storage vendors as well. These things are
a lot more expensive than the roll-your-own that you're proposing, but
they are worth holding up as the pre-built alternatives for management
in case they do want to do this.

There is a rumor that sun will turn the x4500 into more of a storage
appliance, but generally sun is terrible about the user experience and
management of hosts/devices/etc.. But just so you know.

-Peter

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