Re: Ubuntu a poor choice for servers

2006-07-10 Thread David Abrahams
Waleed Harbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David, Could you please put all the steps you did it to Create LVM or RAID? I'd like if you have any error message please attach it with the email it will help us to solve the problem if there a problem. Okay, before I try again, I have a few questions

Re: Ubuntu a poor choice for servers

2006-07-10 Thread David Abrahams
Waleed Harbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *David Abrahams, Is Ubuntu a poor choice for servers? :-) It could be. Here's what I did: * partition each of my 500GB SATA drives (sda,sdb) as follows: - one 100MB primary partition - ten 50GB logical partitions (I have my reasons) * Create

Anyone using EVMS?

2006-08-10 Thread David Abrahams
Ubuntu installs and activates EVMS by default, but gives us no way to set up EVMS volumes in any installer, and AFAICT all of EVMS' functionality is provided by mdraid and LVM. I've been unable to get a convincing answer out of the EVMS people about why anyone would convert a filesystem to EVMS

Re: Ubuntuguide.org Considered Harmful

2007-06-09 Thread David Abrahams
on Tue Jun 05 2007, Jim Tarvid tarvid-AT-ls.net wrote: Merely true! I run across competing howtos all the time. The academic world addresses the issue by journaling. That doesn't always work either. I use a sandbox approach and have reinstalled some things a dozen times or more before I

forcedeth problems (was: Ubuntu a poor choice for servers)

2007-12-12 Thread David Abrahams
Picking up this thread from long ago... on Tue Jul 11 2006, David Kempe dave-AT-solutionsfirst.com.au wrote: Anyway - that motherboard you have has got some issue. The onboard nvidia chipset is crap, mostly because the reverse engineered forcedeth drivers are seriously problematic. I have a

Recommended SATA card?

2008-06-16 Thread David Abrahams
Hi, I need to expand the internal disk capacity on my server, and all my mobo's 4 SATA ports are occupied. Can anyone recommend an SATA card that will work well with Ubuntu? TIA, -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Recommended SATA card?

2008-06-16 Thread David Abrahams
on Mon Jun 16 2008, Ante Karamatic ivoks-AT-grad.hr wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:35:01 -0500 James Dinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The controller is going to be the issue here. Any brands of cards that use the same controller are going to be equally supported. You could check what

Re: Recommended SATA card?

2008-06-16 Thread David Abrahams
on Mon Jun 16 2008, Owen Townend owen.townend-AT-gmail.com wrote: On 17/06/2008, James Dinkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to expand the internal disk capacity on my server, and all my mobo's 4 SATA

Re: Recommended SATA card?

2008-06-16 Thread David Abrahams
on Mon Jun 16 2008, David Abrahams dave-AT-boostpro.com wrote: To get around the pci bandwidth limit the options are limited to PCI-E and PCI-X which should both give ample headroom. My x16 PCI-E slots should give 4GB/s and my fastest PCI-X slot is 133Mhz are about 1GB per second. Okay