At some point in the next year we're going to reconsider our hosting
environment, currently consisting of several medium-sized servers (2x4
CPUs, 48GB RAM, 12-disk RAID system with 8 in RAID 10 and 2 in RAID 1 for
WAL). We use barman to keep a hot standby and an archive.
The last time we dug into
I'm about to install a new production server and wanted some advice regarding
filesystems and disk partitioning.
The server is:
- Dell PowerEdge R430
- 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.4GHz
- 32 GB RAM
- 4 x 600GB 10k SAS
- PERC H730P Raid Controller with 2GB cache
The drives will be set up in one RAID-