[TriLUG] Fileservers questions.

[Corey Mutter]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:18:31PM -0400, bp wrote:
> My fileserver project has found more hardware now.  I'm hoping the 
> performance guru's can give me a heads up on the best way to set it up.  
> It will be used for two purposes, #1 server huge files (product/middleware 
> installs)  #2 give users access to fgrep * search a large java source 
> tree.  Nothing is that important, not concerned about fault tolerance or 
> loss of data should something melt down.
> 
> The Gear I've collected
> Dell P3-500 tower.
> Primary IDE: 12g & 15g drive
> Secondary IDE: 120g & cdrom
> 3com 10/100 card
> 
> I figure the os will go on the two small drives & I'll create a huge 120g 
> partition to do filesharing.
> 
> So for the two smaller drives I thought I'd a 1g swap partition and then 
> RAID0 for a ~24g / partition.
> 
> Then format the 120g as a single ext2 partition.  Read somewhere that ext2 
> performs faster than the ext3 or other JFS's.  (On UPS, so not too worried 
> about hard resets & fsck time as someone recommended XFS for this reason.)

If these files are read-mostly (you plan to occasionally post files that
many will read), then go ahead with ext3. Journalling filesystems don't
have any extra overhead on reads, just on writes.

Corey

> 
> Any one have some better idea's?  Remember, I'm trying to get my team 
> hooked on linux.
> 
> -bp 
> 
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