[OAI-general] System Architecture

[François Schiettecatte]

Amy

I would encourage people to reply to the list, it is always educational to
see how other "did it good", as it were.

Given the cheapness of storage these days, I am not sure I would recommend a
jukebox set up, unless you really have vast amounts of data. You can now fit
close to a terabyte of storage in a standard tower PC using commodity disk
drives, ATA controllers, with Linux as your operating system. You can serve
that storage to other servers using NFS for example. If you are worried
about redundancy, you can always use RAID controllers. I know there have
been a number of articles about this on Slashdot and would be happy to dig
them out and post references to them here, if there is interest.

As an example, The Internet Archive, uses commodity PCs for all its storage,
you can check it out at:

    http://www.archive.org/

Cheers

Francois


On 2/14/03 8:49 AM, "Hatfield, Amy J" <ajhatfie@iupui.edu> wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I am currently exploring our institution's ability to create an
> institutional repository that is OAI compliant.  I feel I have a fair
> understanding of the standards, functionality, etc. involved - and am
> leaning toward DSpace as a model - but there is one aspect that I don't
> see discussed very much...  system architecture!
> 
> I would be grateful if folks would share with me some architecture
> configurations they have developed.  I am most interested in the storage
> aspect.  I have looked at jukebox technology as a storage backend, but
> am not sure about the retrieval aspect.  We also have a super computer
> with lots of storage capacity - but it is not designed to handle small
> files, but rather large datasets.  Any information you would like to
> share will be most appreciated.
> 
> Feel free to respond directly to me if you would rather not post to the
> list.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Amy
> 
> Amy Jo Hatfield, Systems Librarian
> Ruth Lilly Medical Library
> Educational Technology
> (317)278-8402
> 975 West Walnut Street
> IB-100 Room 102A
> Indianapolis, IN 46202-5121
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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