On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:01 PM, <jandrade@jandrade.com> wrote:
> But beyond those items is the best type of file system. I use zfs on our
> Solaris and Linux servers. We have had excellent performance using Nexenta
> and iSCSI to our fiber SANS.
>
> John
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Van Tilburg <vt@ariestechgroup.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:11:40
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Taking Petabytes
>
> It depends on how the data is to be used. Are you going to see a lot of
> read/writes to the storage, or more of one than the other, i.e. more
> reads, few writes or more writes, few reads. What sort of connection are
> you going to use, 1Gb, Fibre, 10Ge? What sort of protocol, TCP/IP,
> iSCSI, NSF, CIFS, one of the SAN protocols? It's all of those things
> together that determine the type of solution you'll need, beyond having
> 2.5 petabytes which is a good hunk of storage.
>
> VT
>
> On 5/25/2010 4:27 PM, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> > Anybody got any thoughts on how to build a 2.5 Petabyte storage solution
> > that will work with Linux and Windows?
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
They asked for support in linux and windows. Pushing your favorite distro
doesn't provide what he asked for and the filesystem used would have to be
one supported by both unless some abstraction such as samba or NFS is used.
I somehow doubt that is what he wants though.
Steven Van Tilburg poses some valid points and we will need the answers to
those questions before adequate support could be provided. :)
-- Clayton Holloway
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