Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: The best filesystem for a BIG news server | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 1996 21:18:41 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Use 4 2.0Gig IDE drives. Stripe them using the mdutils (or not does not seem to matter here) > For a filesystem we use ext2 here with a smaller blockspace (1K).
You are unlikely to get good enough performance off 4 IDE drives with a big news feed and a lot of traffic. I note you arent for example taking a full feed [Or if you do you only take 2.5 days news]
> Note that we are continually swapping drives. No SCSI drive has survived more than 8 Months. We are now checking out how the >situation is with IDE drives for a newsserver spool.
Same drives, different glue. Just some of the SCSI ones have better mechanisms and run faster. If your scsi drives blow up after 8 months I'd check your vendor, your ventilation and your machine handling policy.
Alan
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