On Monday 04 March 2002 07:39 pm, Goetz Bock wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04 '02 at 16:39, Anthony W. Marino wrote: > > LVM 1.x > > good idea > > > 3Ware 7800 Raid Controller > > what do you want to go for? RAID5 RAID5 > > Maxtor 40GB harddrives > > All IDE drives are about the same, but I'm running softraid5 with 4x60GB > and 6x80GB, all Maxtor > > > XFS Journalling FS > > I'm using ReiserFS and ext3 (both in production), and am about to move > from reiserFS to ext3. Except for special purpose (e.g. my MP3 base, and > an thousends off small files (1-10k) box) > > > SuSE 2.4.18+ Linux > > IMHO, don't use SuSE, pick one of the real RPM based distributions. > If you want everything provided go for RedHat or Mandrake, if you want a > real server (and know how to compile your kernel) go for trustix. Why don't you think that SuSE isn't a real server OS??? > Some more comments: > - don't use striping on RAID5. It is not going to work (well, if you > have two RAID5 sets it will, but that's a waste of disk space) > - this ony appiles to my bad expirience with the 6xxx 3ware controllers: > test wether softRAID with the linux kernel is not faster than the > hardware RAID > (well, you can not boot from softRAID as comfortable as you can from > hardware RAID) I have 4x40GB Maxtor drives and haven't determined what my final configuration will be. > - install the 3ware tool, the 3dm is a deamon that is configurateable > from a web page (only runs on localhost, and has (for sure) some > security holes). It can send mails on errors, too. > (AFAIR the install script is realy broken, don't run it, do it by > hand) > - with a 2.4.xx kernel you do not need a special driver > - I've a 6800 for sale. i switched my home filebase over to 3 promise > controllers. They can do powersaving while I'm at work. > Where do I find this 3ware tool? Thanks, Anthony > Cu, > Goetz. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html