[ale] Terabyte of data

[cfowler]

My main concern is processor speed.  I'm going to be providing this data
as well as writing software to keep it Blowfish encrypted.  Every bit of
it.  I do not know the specs of why/how the blowfish has to work but I
know that it may need to be done.  I need good product because I need a
"cookie cutter" solution.  My main concern is FS speed and hardware
speed.  I'll be investigating which FS can give use good speed.  It may
be that I would have to write a very small FS that provides the basics
and does encryption on the fly.  I need at least 128bit encryption.  The
more I think about it, it may be a custom fs is needed.



On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:28, Robert L. Harris wrote
> 
> 
> I'm currently using a system that has 16 160G disks in a RAID5.  This 
> gives me a bit more than you want of course.  I'm using a 3Ware IDE Raid 
> card to provide connectivity but using Software RAID5.  Back when we
> built this system the 3ware RAID5 implementation was a disaster for
> performance, this may have changed however.
> 
> One note, with the 3ware card, the IDE drives are hot swapable if you
> get a system with the right type of bays.
> 
> I can give you the name of our vendor though personally I'd recomend a
> local vendor as ours is in canada and I'm having issues with him.   If
> you go with someone local who has questions on design let me know, I'll
> give exact specs on the system/chasis we're using.  The only thing I
> recomend is a better system for locking down the drives as sometimes the
> drives in our system will unseat themselves.....  Also, more fans, these
> produce a good bit of heat.  Otherwise we have 8 of these providing ALOT
> of disk space for our legato backup server and they're working very well
> after a good bit of tuning.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thus spake cfowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):
> 
> > 
> > I'm looking at a situation where I need to create a raid 0 file system that
> > equals 1 terabyte of storeage for trival data.  Has anyone done this with
> > Linux?  I think the ext2 fs does have a limit that may keep it from going up
> > to a terabyte in size.  I'll also have a limit on the file sizes too. 
> > 
> > Is there an ATA raid card that can do more than 4 drives.  It seems the
> > biggest I can get is 200Mb drives.  I'll need at least 5 maybe 6 drives.
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> 
> Diagnosis: witzelsucht
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