Eric,
Sorry, I didn't respond early to this one. Here's a "press release" of how
we're using XFS:
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is an ambitious effort to map 1/4 of the
visible sky at optical and very-near infrared wavelengths, and take spectra
of 1 million extra-galactic objects. The estimated amount of data that will
be taken over the 5 year lifespan of the project is 15TB, however, the total
amount of storage space required for object informational databases,
corrected frames, and reduced spectra will be several factors more than
this. The goal is to have all the data online and available to the
collaborators at all times, and provide this within strict budget
constraints. To accomplish this goal we are using COTS machines with IDE
disks configured as RAID50 arrays using XFS. Each machine has 16 81.9GB
disks resulting in 1.12TB of usable space. At current hardware prices,
these machines cost approximately $11,000 USD, or just under a penny per
megabyte. Currently, 10 machines are in production and plans for 12TB more
space is in the works.
For complete details and status of the project please see
http://www.sdss.org.
Cheers,
Dan
Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> Hi all -
>
> I'd like to put a page up on the web site detailing the various
> applications, distributions, installations, and embedded products using
> XFS for Linux.
>
> I'd appreciate some submissions; examples below.
>
> Applications
> ------------
> Grub
> GNU parted
> Ferris
> Samba, supports XFS acls.
>
> Distributions
> -------------
> Mandrake 8.1
> Debian "sid" has xfs patches
> JBLinux
> J-B linux
>
> Installations
> -------------
> Hm, no examples here... what I'm _not_ looking for is "my home
> fileserver." What I _am_ looking for is something like "The human
> genome project stores all data on Linux/XFS" :) Basically, something
> that someone else contemplating a substantial Linux/XFS deployment would
> be interested in.
>
> Products
> --------
> I know of some embedded projects using XFS, but I'm not sure I'm free to
> mention them. If you're using XFS in your whiz-bang toaster or set-top
> box, that'd be a good data point as well.
>
> If you have something to submit, please include a URL for the
> project/distro/installation site for more info, and a brief description
> of features, capabilities, etc of the submission.
>
> I'll reserve the right to filter all this for things that I feel are
> substantial enough to mention.
>
> This thread has the potential to get fairly off-topic, so let's not
> delve too far into discussions of the relative merits of various
> distros, etc...
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Eric
>
> --
> Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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Dan Yocum
Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Fermilab 630.840.6509
yocum@xxxxxxxx, http://www.sdss.org
SDSS. Mapping the Universe.
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