wayne e baisley baisleyalumniriceedu fermi yes im back long story buying 4u systems like fiscal year ending 20 asa ir4us1 systems pushing similar units available 60 order theyre 212 tb 10k although add separate ide scsi system disk 3ware raid controllers saturate intel sds2 motherboard 2 14ghz p3s 2 gb ram 2 3ware 7850 raid controllers 16 160gb maxtors syskonnect gigabit enet fermi redhat 73 httpwwwasacomputerscomcgibinindexfcgactiondisplayscreentemplateid25 theres interesting info httpmitfnalgovmsncdfcafserver_evaluationhtml weve decided go xfs linus merged 25 tree mostly none journaled fss maintain 30 gbs rates nearly full filesystem mostly gb files random deletions use systems caching 2 petabyte tape store ext3 almost dropped 38mbs 10 random deletions didnt want direct io concern occasional system lockup havent chased yet load avg 100 always patio fun oddly even fairly beefy systems like breathe hard keep new stk 9940b tape drives crank along steady 30gbs oldforktimers remember doofus old file server system would take 21 rackspace instead 14 racks cheers wayne tue 17 sep 2002 232031 0500 storage bits