On Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 12:29:27PM -0500, Norman Elton wrote: > We're investigating the possibility of running Linux (RHEL) on top of Sun's > X4500 Thumper box: > > http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/ > > Basically, it's a server with 48 SATA hard drives. No hardware RAID. It's > designed for Sun's ZFS filesystem. > > So... we're curious how Linux will handle such a beast. Has anyone run MD > software RAID over so many disks? Then piled LVM/ext3 on top of that? Any > suggestions? > > Are we crazy to think this is even possible? > The most I've done is 28 drives in RAID-10 (SCSI drives, with the array formatted as XFS). That keeps failing one drive, but I've not had time to give the drive a full test yet to confirm it's a drive issue. It's been running quite happily (under pretty heavy database load) on 27 disks for a couple of months now though. Cheers, Robin -- ___ ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | / / ) | Little Jim says .... | // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" |
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