<div>Would it be better to run 8 servers with one drive each or 2 servers with 4 drives each?<br> </div>
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<div>Christoph<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad Fitzpatrick</b> <<a href="mailto:brad@danga.com">brad@danga.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">It's definitely better to have >1 storage server. If one goes down, then<br>you have downtime.<br>
<br>I see no problem running the client on the same box as any other<br>component.<br><br><br>On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, stoph spam wrote:<br><br>> Hi<br>> Not having used mogilefs yet, and not knowing the overhead on the clients, i
<br>> am trying to decide between two designs.<br>><br>> option 1 would be using the web servers as storage clients. Starting off<br>> with 2 web servers with 2x250g drives each, and adding more as needed,<br>
> adding to my overall storage pool with each addition.<br>><br>> option 2 would be using a server with 4x250g drives as my dB server and main<br>> storage server. eventually migrating the db to its own server when needed.
<br>><br>> Would the overhead of running the mogilefs client on the same box as the web<br>> server or db affect overall performance? is there a big advantage of having<br>> mutiple phyical storage clients rather than one or two hosts with lots of
<br>> disks?<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> christoph<br>><br></blockquote></div><br>