14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
8:54 p.m.
On Wed 14 Feb 2007 at 06:17PM, Host Expert wrote:
Hello,
I am thinking on RAID1 and also on compression... To maximise number of users.
Well, I know I'll come off sounding like a shill for the company I work for. But: consider deploying ZFS[1]. RAID and Compression are both built in features. Regardless of filesystem, on modern systems, there's not much performance penalty for using modest levels of compression-- in fact, some workloads counter-intuitively go *faster* due to the reduction in disk I/O!
-dp[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
-- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp@eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp