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Re: RAID 5 with 3Ware IDE
- To: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz-home(at-nospam)cobol2java.com>
- Subject: Re: RAID 5 with 3Ware IDE
- From: Ariel Biener <ariel(at-nospam)fireball.tau.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 21:24:27 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- In-Reply-To: <200104291811.VAA11327@mail.intercomp-sys.com>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Hi Hetz,
Is performance an issue ? Use NFSv3, and mount with a blocksize of
16k (unless your switches deal with larger blocksizes well - Network
Appliance have a fairly well documented case of switches not dealing well
with >16k udp blocksize for NFS).
About performance, 60GB disks with 7200rpm, using raid5, will result in
performance problems. If you are going to mount this using 100Mbit over a
few NFS clients, that use the file-server you create intensively for reads
and writes, you may find yourself bottlenecked...
--Ariel
> Hi all,
>
> I'm planning to make up a file server for a project that I'm working on in my
> spare time. I'm planning to make it a 300GB File server (EIDE UDMA 5- 5 X
> 60 GB hard disk) - with 3Ware controller..
>
> I got few questions:
>
> 1. Anyone triedto use this controller? any impressions? recommendations?
>
> 2. How are the drivers inside the kernel? in 2.2.x? 2.4.x?
>
> I'm planning to use NFS with it, but so far from my knowledge, Linux NFS V2
> implementation are not good, and V3 is still experimental and unstable (if I
> understand that correctly). Any suggestions? lots of users will have to
> access this machine locally...
>
> Any other suggestions regarding this RAID?
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
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