Re: [9fans] file server speed

[Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:04 PM,  <kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> not a fair comparsion.
>>
>> Yes, I'd have been more specific.
>> my intension was cwfs > fossil+venti of 9atom >> fossil+venti labs.
>> I did not consider kenfs itself, because I consider it should be
>> file+auth+cpu server.   The last is not important, but for drawterm
>> from others.
>>
>> Recent kenfs can be such a machine?
>> Please remember I plan it for my private home machine, not
>> any sofisticated office use.
>
> kenfs works well, but you have to be well prepared to maintain it.
> Invest in a decent UPS - preferably one that is supported by the
> auto-shutdown (ISTR support was added for that a while back). You need
> to be careful when sizing your cache - I would invest in a pair of
> decent SSDs for cache, and two or more drives for housing the WORM. Be
> prepared for failure. The last large kensfs I maintained (around 16TB
> usable, 48TB raw) worked very well but would still crash one every
> year or two. Make sure you keep hard copies of your fsconfig and get
> comfortable with scripting as erik mentioned.
>
> That was in an office environment. At home I use
> fossil+(plan9port)venti running on linux-based NAS. This ends up
> working very well for me since I have resources to spare on that
> machine. This also lets me backup my arenas via CrashPlan. I use a

I am very interested to use such a setup. Could you please add more
about the setup? What hardware do you use for the NAS? Any scripts
etc?

--
  Ramakrishnan