[TriLUG] Linux Fileserver to replace w2k

[Andrew Perrin]

Is this really worth the trouble? I don't know anything about it, so the
answer might be "yes", but you can get 120GB of storage (IDE) for under
$200 and avoid having to deal with LVM.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, bp wrote:

> Jason Tower wrote:
>
> >RHAS 2.1 does not support LVM but redhat 9 does, setting it up during
> >installation is a snap.  there are no GUI tools post-install, but the CLI
> >tools work well.
> >
> >for a file server with dual IDE disks you can easily do LVM on top of software
> >RAID 1, which gives you the benefits of LVM and disk redundancy at the same
> >time without expensive scsi raid hardware.  i've done this on several boxes
> >and have never had any problems.  if you want raid 5 i'd suggest using a
> >3ware ide raid controller instead of software raid, but for mirroring
> >software raid is usually fine.  good luck!
> >
>
> We aren't storing anything important so RAID redundancy is not a goal,
> rather having a single mount point span several physical volumes.  (I'm
> scraping together several old smaller drives)
>
> So, it sounds like RedHat 9 could handle 3 drives setup as a big'ol
> logical /public mount?
> RH9 is stable/released now, right?
> -bp
>
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