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I personally use reiserfs and LVM on my home file server. I've found |
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that the 2.6 kernel is much faster when dealing with Samba than the |
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older 2.4 kernel series. The gentoo 2.6 kernel (gentoo-dev-sources) is |
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quite good and includes drivers for everything you listed. I've been |
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running this system for about 5 months now this way and have found no |
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problems so far. |
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Hostname: reverb - OS: Linux 2.6.8-gentoo-r3/i686 - CPU: 2 x Intel(R) |
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Pentium(R) 4 (2612.717 MHz) - Processes: 64 - Uptime: 57d 5h 41m - Load |
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Average: 0.73 - Memory Usage: 184.77MB/1011.06MB (18.27%) - Disk Usage: |
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980.00GB/1159.95GB (84.49%) |
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About 500GB of the filesystem is composed of 700MB-1.2GB files. |
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Rob |
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David Wuertele wrote: |
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>I'm rebuilding my terabyte file server from scratch. Previously I |
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>used "emerge gs-sources" to get my kernel, but I'm considering using |
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>the performance-tuned "emerge gentoo-sources" this time. |
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>I want maximum performance and reliability in these areas: |
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> on-board Via IDE controller |
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> multiple SIIG ATA-133 PCI IDE controllers |
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> 7-drive RAID5 array |
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> 1.5TB Reiserfs partition |
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> Average file size about 50MB, largest files will commonly exceed 2GB |
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> Samba file sharing |
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> NFS file sharing |
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>All other areas are of little or no consequence. |
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>Any recommendations? |
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>Thanks, |
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>Dave |
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