Hi, I recently ordered a shiny Dell R510 2U server with 12x3.5" drives. This machine will primarily be a backup host for nightly incremental rsync runs of a dozen other machines. Since this is a well-spec'ed box with dual CPUs, generous bandwidth and 32G RAM I'm wondering if it could also do some medium web serving (mod_perl + postgres). For the main backup partition I plan in using a mdadm raid6 on 8x3T disks and raid6 4x1T disks for the app side. So my questions are: - is it realistic to have mix rsync processes and web serving on the same host? - am I naive in thinking I can get away with it by using distinct disks sets for each task? - all 12 disks being served by the same H200 controller, will the real bottleneck be at the controller level? - any other consideration I should take into account? Thanks, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
