Re: productionserver

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 16:45 23-8-2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Hey there listmembers
>
>Im looking into building a streaming media storage server in a
>production enviroment. The server has to be available 24/7 preferable
>;-). We are using debian as our prefered OS and as such im gonna us
>this to build the storage server. The diskarray are gonna be shared
>via CIFS and optional NFS and now the question is what fs would i
>choose for this system. Ive been lurkeing around on the listarchives
>for a while and reading almost all the mails regarding XFS. The
>question is : Is XFS in its current state ready for production
>enviroments and yes i read the FAQ but it would be nice with some real
>world experince from other "sysadmins". I would be very gratefull for
>any help this list could come up with.

XFS is nice for larger file sizes and also seems to do reasonably well when 
using large databases.

I am currently testing Progress 9 Databases (6GB of them) on a Dell 
Optiplex machine which now already is outperforming our production server 
which has twice the processor power and a scsi Raid array.

Server:                 Workstation:
Dual PII 400                    PIII 450
512MB ram                       256MB ram
50GB raid5 7200RPM scsi 40GB 7200RPM IDE
NCR MP-RAS SVR4 Veritas FS      RedHat 7.1 with XFS

A new real server machine will be forthcoming soon which will make a decent 
server vs server comparison. Between a NCR Unix variant with Veritas FS and 
a RedHat 7.1 look-a-like with XFS.

My manager is impressed :-)

Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.