Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
Actually, it doesn't do it on the fly per se, it can just put file anywhere. You still have to monitor inode usage and increase the number of files when needed (just a simple command).
I'm talking about the RAID volume, not the Linux filesystem. Many RAID controllers actually cannot resize their own volumes. Or were you talking about the NetApp?
This is just a red herring. What doesn't get saturated under high-load conditions?? That's what high-load means!!
;->
It doesn't matter how many PCI channels you have; if you overload your Linux server it'll get slow too. If they are overloading their Netapp, they need a faster Netapp (or another one).
Well, putting a $100 mainboard into a $20K server like the consultants before me did was just moronic. Whenever Linux flushes it's 1GB of memory, it just kills the PCI bus on which both the network and disk controller are on.
TheBS> So I can assign multiple users/groups to a file in TheBS> NetApp's CIFS support?
Yes.
TheBS> Does it support all NT permissions?
Yes.
Cool! I take it I have to have a full PDC to do that, eh?
I know there is an on-going effort to get Linux to do ACLs. At the same time, the Samba guys are trying to map Windows ACLs to those UNIX platforms that have their own ACL support.
Netapp also provides mapping capabilities.
Again, very cool!
-- TheBS