my network just crashed bugger... was touch and go then !
dex
— 25 Apr 2003 17:11
Subject: my network just crashed bugger... was touch and go then !
mex
— 25 Apr 2003 19:01
Subject: Probably because...
you were too busy pissing around on the board instead of working
geekless
— 25 Apr 2003 21:22
Subject: Anyone know anything about RAID?
Just bought a fuckoff server (much cheaper than DELL) and am putting Mandrake Linux on it but not sure how to get the RAID up and working. Want to mirror one drive on the other but don't know how.
grix
— 26 Apr 2003 03:31
Subject: yup...
unless you have a raid controller card you probably want to use
software raid
PS lots of linux docs
here
I would recommend
Slackware rather than Mandrake. Mandrake adds a whole heap of custom stuff to the boot up and initialisation that makes it really hard to play around with or figure out. Slacware is a lot simpler (esp when you are setting up a server). Generic docs on Unix apply a lot better to slackware than Mandrake.
NIX
— 26 Apr 2003 17:26
Subject: Got a RAID motherboard which I assume is like a RAID card but better
was wondering if RAID is a software thing or a hardware thing
grix
— 27 Apr 2003 00:40
Subject: Re: Got a RAID motherboard which I assume is like a RAID card but better
it is either all done in software - kernel with RAID support and software emulation of a raid controller
OR
kernel with RAID support and drivers for the hardware RAID controller
there is a related HOW-TO here:
ATA RAID non SCSI
you will need to build a kernel with RAID support and then configure LILO to boot off the RAID disk
do you need RAID? -
rsync is simple and works for me. It only transfers the changes to files and you can get it to run once a night or whatever - raid mirroring will give you slightly faster reads but slower writes
dex
— 28 Apr 2003 12:44
Subject: is it really necessary to use raid...
Nixlary
— 28 Apr 2003 19:11
Subject: Yup - because its there!
had to tinker a little but got the hardware RAID 1 working
befuddled
— 30 Apr 2003 14:43
Subject: No longer sure - IDE RAID is notoriously crapply supported...
gonna try software RAID as it still delivers 1.5 times the bandwidth (apparently) and I still would like redundancy although finding myself caring less...
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