Dell and SSD drives

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 05:18:57PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> >> I am looking at our mail servers and trying to get some disk IO
> >> contentions down. I would like to know if people have used SSD's in a
> >> Linux environment. I am looking at an SSD over a ramdisk for
> >> persistence of storage in case of reboots. What I would like to do is
> >> put in 2 SSD's into a 2950 and have them deal with the malware and
> >> spam scanning directories as that seems to be the contention points.
> >
> > First you should maximize your RAM and try tmpfs.
> > That would be faster.
> 
> It would be, but I have been asked to guarantee persistence over reboots.

Then go for RAM first. Use a dedicated FS tuned for the task (I remember
that mke2fs has an option for creating a file system tuned for Usenet
news: -T news). Or maybe a dedicated RAID-1 of fast 15k drives would
help for temporary storage?

Tino.

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