Client overhead

[stoph]

Would it be better to run 8 servers with one drive each or 2 servers with 4
drives each?

--
Christoph

On 1/5/07, Brad Fitzpatrick <brad at danga.com> wrote:
>
> It's definitely better to have >1 storage server.  If one goes down, then
> you have downtime.
>
> I see no problem running the client on the same box as any other
> component.
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, stoph spam wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > Not having used mogilefs yet, and not knowing the overhead on the
> clients, i
> > am trying to decide between two designs.
> >
> > option 1 would be using the web servers as storage clients.  Starting
> off
> > with 2 web servers with 2x250g drives each, and adding more as needed,
> > adding to my overall storage pool with each addition.
> >
> > option 2 would be using a server with 4x250g drives as my dB server and
> main
> > storage server.  eventually migrating the db to its own server when
> needed.
> >
> > Would the overhead of running the mogilefs client on the same box as the
> web
> > server or db affect overall performance?  is there a big advantage of
> having
> > mutiple phyical storage clients rather than one or two hosts with lots
> of
> > disks?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > christoph
> >
>
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