[geeks] Eeeek

alex j avriette avriettea at speakeasy.net
Wed Apr 10 22:28:32 CDT 2002


On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 10:03 PM, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 05:24 , alex j avriette wrote:
>
>> i have two linux machines at work with 4x 100gb drives, and it takes 
>> about half an hour to bring them up (provided all disks need fsck). 
>> they are running ext2. theyre, um, 5400rpm i believe.
>
> I journal all I can.  I have two 500G filesystems for our users, a 
> couple of 170G, and I am futzing around now with a pair of A5200's with 
> a total of 44 36G 10K disks.  I think I have about 4T in my server room.

out of curiosity.. its our sun-guys' jobs to take care of our 5200's. we 
have on the san alone, 10tb of space. add that to our small farm of scsi 
and ide disks for the xml data we store, its more like 15tb. does the 
sun clustering and san software use journalling? how does that work?

alex



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