I have used Netware for a long time and if you are experiencing reliability
problems, it is rarely the SW, but most likely the hardware! I supported almost 50
people on a Prosignia 486/66 with 64MB RAM and the system never topped out on
resources and had tons of disk storage. Changing the OS on potentially flakey
hardware will probably produce similiar results... An unreliable system.
IMHO
Barry
John Ronan wrote:
> Howdy folks,
>
> A quick question, After several years of my harping on about Linux and what it
> can do my dad has given me a "put up or shut up" problem. He has a 12 GB Novell
> Fileserver that's getting more and more unreliable about 20 users sharing data
> on it and several networked printers. He wants a setup that is extremely
> reliable.
>
> I was thinking along the lines of 2 SCSI based Machines, both running raid5 one
> an exact mirror of the other (I already run a software Raid5 system at work
> which has never fallen over.. obviously), with as much redundancy as
> possible... I'm just wondering is there anyone else out there running a
> similiar setup and what experiences they've had good/bad/other.
>
> I'd be thinking along the lines of DPT/Mylex SCSI Controllers and Seagate
> Drives.
>
> Maybe this is more of a High Availability issue?
>
> It would probably be better to reply off list and thanks for your time.
>
> John
>
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