On Friday 12 December 2003 18:16, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Jesse, could you recommend some specific cases and comment on the > ext3 thing? as to the ext3, it's just slow. Disk I/O comparison vs JFS, Reiserfs, XFS, and especially ext2 show ext3 to be very slow. > I've done some looking but simply cannot find stuff I like for a > 12-or-more-drives rackmount case. I'm not looking for the space > shuttle here, since the thing is for a home or SOHO server... but I > would like to put in a 2-drive RAID-1 array for the OS, a 12-drive > RAID-5 array, and a CD-RW... so it looks like I need 15 bays to build > my dream home system. For 12 drives, and CDRW stuff, you're looking at the 3u racksize. Even then you'll most likely only find chassis that have slim CDR[W] options. Something like this: http://www.chenbro.com.tw/product/product.jsp?p=3&s=305 > And I've only used ext2 earlier and now ext3 on Linux, so I have no > idea what else I could/would/should use. FC1 supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs, jfs, and a few other file systems. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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