[Gllug] Large raid 5/5+0 setup

[John Hearns]

2009/6/18 Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:25:03AM +0100, Justin Perreault wrote:
> [...]
> > If anyone has any thoughts/direction I would greatly appreciate the
> > feedback.
>
> You'll be wanting a Sun Fire X4540. At $22k, it might be quite hard to run
> past the missus though. Ignore the Linux fanboys and just leave Solaris on
> there so you can get ZFS and format the array RAIDZ2.
>
There new filesystems appearing for 2.6.30 kernel - well OK, you might not
want to experiment with your videos though!

Signed - A Linux Fanboy

btrfs   http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7308/

nilfs http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html



ps. regarding hardware, I would look at a Supermicro chassis with hot-swap
disks.
They do a nice 24-slot chassis which takes 2.5 inch disks, but I guess you
would be wanting 3.5 inch.
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