[ale] INN server

[Jeff Hubbs]

Russell -

I don't have INN experience but I looked at the FAQ and other related docs.
I would have to delve a lot deeper than an ALE response warrants to be of
GREAT help, but from what I've seen so far, I don't think you want to do
anything BUT hardware RAID.  Consensys can set you up with a 1TB array with
PCI-bus controller for around $21,000.  

That's a HECK of a lot of por^H^H^Hnews.  

- Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Enderby [mailto:russell.enderby at arris-i.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:44 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] INN server
> 
> 
> 
> Well it is still a work in progress.  I will need to look at 
> the XFS solution you mentioned.
> The box will most likely be a redhat 6.2 box, intel hardware 
> with some adaptec scsi2 (wide, etc) controller (mabe hardware 
> raid as well).  I am still researching RAM and CPU 
> requirements as it seems like most of the time is HD access.  
> I am currently betting RAM and CPU will not be a huge factor 
> as much as fast and large SCSI devices will be a must.  But I 
> was hoping to find someone else on this list who is running 
> INN so I can get a feel for these requirements.
> 
> Thanks,
> Russell
> 
> Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
> > Russell,
> > I don't know INN at all but had some thoughts on the thread:
> >
> > Use a SGI Origin 3000 with XLV and XFS combined to span 
> drives seamlessly and mirror.  If a drive fails you can 
> restore easily while the mirror takes over.  Also, growing 
> the filesystem is possible even while in use.  You could 
> easily have thousands of drives.  I talked with an SGI 
> engineer and found out you could have 1024 SCSI controllers 
> on a fully decked out Origin 2000 (256 CPUs with 4 CPUs per 
> node).  Maybe the Linux based LV system has a similar 
> functionality, I don't know.  SGI specialized XFS and XLV to 
> work on Terabyte size installations, you should take a look 
> at it.  SGI has finally released XFS to the open source after 
> purging it of the code that couldn't be included legally.  
> Either ReiserFS or XFS coupled with a logical volume 
> management scheme would give you what you want in terms of a 
> large file system worth using.  Being able to configure INN 
> to access multiple filesystems for different groupings would 
> certainly be a solution.  For that large a system, have you 
> given thought to how long a fsck would take?  As long as 
> you've got many small filesystems, you would have many 
> parallel fscks running.  A single large ext2fs would take 
> quite awhile!  I guess you would need two machines so you 
> could backup and fsck one while the other provides services?  
> Each one of those ought to be mirrored, right?
> >
> > I have been using ReiserFS on my laptop since last June 
> with no problems and great success.  No wait times on boot 
> for fsck's!  What hardware will you be using for your news server?
> > Dow
> >
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