Re: I need a solution

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 09:22, Gabriel Popescu wrote:
>  
>  Hello, 
> 
> I need to update 10.000 files with an information of 50 Bytes (not KBytes). To be more precisely, I need to put 50 Bytes in each of these files. The problem is that I want these files updated in only one second. Sure, the system must be reliable and I don't have to lose any data. The things that I can consider are: creating some threads to work in the same time and a good hardware (I mean a machine with 4 processors, 4 GB of memory). Also, I want a backup system using RAID for duplicating the data.
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> I also want to consider Red Hat Linux so I want to know if Linux can complete this job without loosing data, and of course, in only one second.

Does this need to happen only once? Or with great frequency? 

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> I was thinking about using Reiser FS like file system but I don’t know if it will resist 24/24 7/7. 

ext3 is the way to go to get support, data integrity and stability.
ReiserFS has issues as a JFS.

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> This is the critical part of the entire project. The other parts of the project are using J2EE for messaging and computing. Should I still consider java for writing to disk or I have to use C/C++ ?

Java is flakier than C/C++ on Linux, but that's a pain you will likely
feel on other OS's as well and not a limitation of Linux per se. 

> 
> Finally, if a Linux machine cannot do this job for me, what other solution should I consider in order to complete this job?
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> Thank you,
> 
> Gabriel
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