My personal leaning is towards Sun hardware with RHEL4 but I wanted
to get
some fresh opinions. Thought this topic worth a rehash since 2004
data is
useful but not current enough IMO.
(sun just announce a 3u dual proc 16G ram box with
24TB
of disk space for ~$70k for example)
I admit a fear of multi-terabyte filesystems and their long check
times
when things go south. Perhaps there is some configuration of this
that is
safe?
Just curious, and not to start any religious wars, but if you're
going to go so far as buying the Sun hardware (which is quite good),
what's keeping you from running Solaris 10 x86? We've actually been
migrating most of our Linux services to Solaris for it's much more
mature storage management capabilities, and from an enterprise
administration point of view, more stable operating environment.
We haven't started our testing with Cyrus, but we're optimistic that
Sun's ZFS, especially with it's on-disk compression, will for a great
Cyrus mail storage backend.
-rob
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