On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:21:23 -0500 "Matt Bettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, John Brahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > We're the proud new owner of a 10x750GB appliance. We're going to > > put OpenBSD on it and I was looking for suggestions or feedback on a > > configuration we were considering. This server is going to be > > stored at our colo and we have a point to point T1 directly > > connected to it. (We're going to initially populate it here and > > only have to rsync daily differences after hours.) > > > > Hi, > > I believe in using the right tool for the job and, to be honest I > wouldn't use OpenBSD for a large data store like that. If it were me > I'd get a real SAN or NAS but you have what you have so my top choice > would be an OS that you can run an Volume manager on, Linux with LVM2 > or Veritas VM. FreeBSD has some Volume Management capabilities but I > have no experience using them. Sorry if my answer offends you. > > Matt I second that, except for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD; I'd really recommend to run, if possible, Solaris and take advantage of ZFS with all its nice tools and features. Btw, can you specify what this appliance is? I have an EMC Cellerra at work which /could/ be used as a highly redundant and nice performing CIFS server (authentication to be done by another machine, though). We found this out after figuring out weeks of how to add a second/third machine to our *cough* RHEL *cough* server infrastructure to get a redundant setup (the file server is connected to another EMC, a 3TByte CX300, using FC) using 'a' cluster filesystem. This turned out to be a real PITA -- and then someone told us that the Cellerra can do this most conveniently. Guess what it is doing right now? It exports a 3TByte NFSv3 FS. geeeeeeees... To make a long story short: Really THINK VERY HARD on this setup. Once you decided which way you go and store 3TByte of data there (regardless of the way *how* you do it, using GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or DR-DOS ;) be sure it will be a real PITA to get this corrected IF you have to... timo
