On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:57:52PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> >From what I've read is that you can get 1GB/s out of xfs, and possibly
> greater. If this is true, then I'd suspect that it would be a good fibre
> setup or possibly a LOT of scsi controllers and disks. Say 4-6 UW160
> controllers 2 channels each and say 4-6 disks per channel. (Pure scsi) If
> fibre, then you should be able to use say 4 Single port Fibre cards
> attatched to enough disks, say 16 or so, to get a reasonable throughput
> like you speak of.
hmm... if you're talking 2 Gbps scsi, that's a total of 8 Gbps or 1GB/s
available bandwidth, and the packet switching in the protocol will definitely
make you lose some of that to overhead. I think he'd need a bit more if he
wanted to actually get 1GB/s from the disks to the system. He'd probably also
need to use a very high-performance bus architecture (is there even one that
fast supported by linux?).
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