You cant normally boot off software raid if the primary disk fails on Intel. So hardware raid for boot stuff. for data software raid is fine, in fact seems to do rather well.
Its quite possible to fill /var and lock a server up to the point access is not possible. Now I have to admit I have only seen this on Solaris, I assume its just as possible on Linux. Ditto /home, a user say a DBA can do a data dump and blow away the entire system if its not seperated out. Seperating out areas just make sit easier to manage IMHO. Steven -----Original Message----- From: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 7:22 To: Jones, Steven Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Partitioning a Web Server On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:20, Jones, Steven wrote: > I would strongly disagree, partitioning is very important. Logging should > be separated out so that a full /var wont stop logging in. How does a full /var stop people logging in? I just did a quick test and /bin/login permits logging in for non-root accounts when /var is full. One thing no-one seems to have mentioned yet is the need for RAID. Relying on a single disk for all your data is very risky. Software RAID-1 is cheap and easy. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
