[TriLUG] Linux Fileserver to replace w2k

[Ryan Leathers]

3 points...

LVM is a snap - so easy to configure now in RH9

It's flexibility is really a "must have" for any serious server use.

Multiple smaller disks are always going to perform better than a single
large disk. 

Ryan

 
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:30, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 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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> 
> 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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