On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:04 PM, <kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp> wrote: >>> not a fair comparsion. >> >> Yes, I'd have been more specific. >> my intension was cwfs > fossil+venti of 9atom >> fossil+venti labs. >> I did not consider kenfs itself, because I consider it should be >> file+auth+cpu server. The last is not important, but for drawterm >> from others. >> >> Recent kenfs can be such a machine? >> Please remember I plan it for my private home machine, not >> any sofisticated office use. > > kenfs works well, but you have to be well prepared to maintain it. > Invest in a decent UPS - preferably one that is supported by the > auto-shutdown (ISTR support was added for that a while back). You need > to be careful when sizing your cache - I would invest in a pair of > decent SSDs for cache, and two or more drives for housing the WORM. Be > prepared for failure. The last large kensfs I maintained (around 16TB > usable, 48TB raw) worked very well but would still crash one every > year or two. Make sure you keep hard copies of your fsconfig and get > comfortable with scripting as erik mentioned. > > That was in an office environment. At home I use > fossil+(plan9port)venti running on linux-based NAS. This ends up > working very well for me since I have resources to spare on that > machine. This also lets me backup my arenas via CrashPlan. I use a
I am very interested to use such a setup. Could you please add more about the setup? What hardware do you use for the NAS? Any scripts etc? -- Ramakrishnan
