On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 01:50 -0800, trebejo wrote: > I've been withholding a reply to avoid thread fragmentation...
Dreamer. > wrt what I meant by "headless", I meant at the very least that it would > run unattended without a monitor or keyboard. If it can reboot > unattended and so forth that's all the better, since then I can get > ambitious and actually park one of these things at my parents' and > spread the joy. In either case, I'd run the slimserver either from > another computer via a web browser or (and this feels like a stretch) > solely with the remote control. That is a easy definition to execute. Of course, as I posted in my earlier msg, my slimserver box hardly ever is rebooted. 160 days is more than 5 months. Remote control is very much possible, even my main server, which runs five domains, a serious webstore, assorted mail, DNS and other services. You might want to get a good X-terminal package for your real computer, Macs have one built in. > There's always a closet and a long ethernet cable... If the apartnemt is that small, the cable won't be that long. > I'm surprised at how little you guys care for the RAID 5 idea. Its a question of engineering needs and approaches. RAID 5 solves specific problems, but I don't see it solving any problems that I have. > Anyway, back to the RAID issue. Doesn't the RAID do something about the > occasional hard drive death? Like, if one dies, I can replace it and not > lose any data? Sure, that is what it does best. But, and this is a big but, do you know that one disk is gone? If you don't, and it keeps working, there is a huge probability that you won't do anything until the second drive dies. Then you are, ummmh, this is a family list, in deep kimchi. > I suppose that in RAID, the hard drives never get a break, whereas in > "regular" the one that is currently playing a song runs while the > others idle? Ugh. Not sure what you are getting at here. The drives spin all the time, the heads usually don't move unless they need to. > . btw Pat I think I was getting > about 30GB/hour (so it'd take over 30 hours to do a terabyte--yipee) And another 30 hours to recover it. Just want people to know that there are serious times involved. Just a quick note in general on distros: I really like two things about Mandriva. First, the GUI for system admin is very nice, you can do almost everything from it and not have shell configuration voodoo. Second, it uses urpmi for updates, which resolves nearly all RPM inter-dependencies. I used to hate RPMs with RedHat. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
