[NCLUG] Terabyte Server Question

[Faster-Laster]

I have some friends at vanderbilt univ. that work in the biomed dept.
They have been using xfs on some redhat machines with about 500 gig
worth of data for some time. They can't quit telling us how fast it is.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:09:33PM -0600, Gary Rogers wrote:
> tradeoffs as to which kind of file system you use as well, but SGI's xfs was
> always smokin for me when I used it on IRIX machines, anyone out there have
> experience with it on a Linux platform?
> 
> Gary Rogers
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David W. Graham" <dgraham at i3.com>
> To: <nclug at nclug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 6:17 PM
> Subject: [NCLUG] Terabyte Server Question
> 
> 
> > Ok,  Here is one:
> >
> > Curently the company has been using a peer to peer network full of shared
> > (Windows 98/NT/2000) hard drives.  We do lots of image processing and it
> > make sense to put large images being processed on local machines.  The
> > company is at the point where it now has some large data sets that are
> used
> > as the basis of several products.  Over time the drives on local machines
> > have been upgraded to raids.  Now there is the situation where there is
> > terabytes of data scattered across ~30 windows computers with no good way
> to
> > access it.  There is a processing trafic jam as everyone is cross sharing
> > everyone elses drives for thier processing needs.
> >
> > So here is the question:
> >
> > 1) If we wanted to move some of the finished data sets to a server, what
> > would that server look like?  These would be primarily read only and the
> > basis for many products that the production staff would work on.  This is
> > about 4 Terabytes of data.
> >
> > 2) How would we prevent a traffic jam right infront of the server?  The
> > entire network is a switch 100 Ethernet.
> >
> > Our IT guy came up with a Window's solution.  I would like to introduce
> > ideas that are a bit outside _that_ box.
> >
> > Dave Graham
> > information integration and imaging, LLC.
> > dgraham at i3.com
> > http://www.i3.com
> >
> >
> >
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