From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 27 10: 9:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-132.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7161E37BC14 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08417; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004271716.KAA08417@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Matthew Dillon , "John W. DeBoskey" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for large mfs In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:52:47 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:16:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm seriously contemplating getting a Dell PowerEdge 2450 with > five internal 10kRPM/18GB disks, 2GB of RAM, two of the fastest > processors they've got, perhaps a pair of Intel EtherExpress Pro 100+ > NICs, and giving this another go with FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE. I would consider 4.0, several (three or four) strings of LVD disks and either a Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 (64MB or more) or an AMI MegaRAID Enterprise 1500. (The 1600 should probably work too, but I haven't seen one yet so I can't be sure.) And definitely softupdates. Note that you can't put more than 8 disks into an array with the Mylex controller (easily), so you'd still want to use ccd or vinum over the top. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message