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Subject: [Rocks-Discuss]Re: Huge 1.2TB partition
From: Mark Overmeer <Mark () Overmeer ! net>
Date: 2004-09-25 8:01:08
Message-ID: 20040925100108.A7908 () speeltuin ! ATComputing ! nl
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* Stas Nikiforov (stas@itam.nsc.ru) [040924 11:50]:
> I have RAID 5 6x250 SATA storage.
> Is it a good idea to have one huge partition
> or it is better to split it on smaller logical drives and then use LVM,
> for example?
>
> In any way, what is a preferred filesystem for this storage?
> I plan to use it as a mass storage for CFD results.
I run a disk-set of 4x250 SATA with an Adaptec 2410SA and
a disk-set of 8x250 SATA with an Adaptec 2810SA.
In both cases, I have a small disk aside, which I use for the OS, log-
files and such. The array is dedicated to my data: satellite images.
Usually, having one partition is best, certainly with a file-system
which is tuned on large disk-sets. I choose XFS, which is capable of
handing much larger partitions. It runs currently on SuSE9.0 with
recent 2.6 kernels.
My selection is not based on performance tests: the I/O bandwidth of
the PCI-bus is my bottleneck. But in my case counts: as long as it
is faster than a tape-archive..... and cheap
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MarkOv
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