At 12:02 23-11-2001 +0000, James Pearson wrote:
I'm thinking of setting up a Linux (i386) based NFS server with approx
1TB XFS file system (on an external FC RAID box).
What hardware would people recommend for this i.e. make and type of
mainboard, fibre channel card, gigabit card etc. What are others using
for this purpose?
I don't use fiber myself so I can't comment on that part.
Use beefy hardware and see if you can get a motherboard with 64bit/66Mhz
PCI slots and lot's of ram makes a big difference for a file/database server.
Dual Athlons go very fast and there motherboards are also decent. Outside
the work scope my servers mostly run AMD processors (Duron and athlon
classic) and I also have a lost Intel Pentium 233.
Cheers
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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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