On Thu 24 Feb, 2000, Noah sitz@onastick.net wrote:

In a similar vein, I find that my raid-fu is not has good as I'd like it to be. Anyone know of any resources (on/offline) that goes into a fair amount of detail on RAID, RAID sets, configuring for performance, and/or whatever else I should know but may not?

Well I believe these books are a pretty good grounder in such matters:

The RAID Book, A Storage System Technology Handbook (6th ed) by Paul Massiglia, Copyright the RAID Advisory Board, 1997, published by Peer-to-Peer

Redundant Disk Arrays, Reliable, Parallel Secondary Storage by Garth A Gibson, The MIT Press, 1992

Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers by Brian Wong, Prentice Hall, 1997

The first book is very clear and covers RAID well. Gibson's book is the dissertation he wrote developing the ideas of the original RAID papers that he had been involved in earlier. And Wong's book has lots of fairly transferable ideas about (large) server configuration.

I've yet to find anything specific to filers, apart from: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3008.html Unfortunately it's now 4 years old and covers soon-to-be-obsoleted equipment, though the universals ring true.

I'd be interested in other recommendations myself!

-- End of excerpt from Noah