I agree that SOME Linux techs will need RAID and I agree that at L2 they should know what RAID means and some basic stuff about RAID but I disagree that we should test for specific RAID information, hardware or software. Quoting Jared Buckley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Agreed. SNMP machines are very popular, moreso than RAID even ;) Also, > > more easily to test on in a limited question set. The RAID thing mostly > > just has me worried, with having enough exam space to do the topic > > justice. RAID is an advanced topic. > > RAID is an advanced topic, but one that me absolutely MUST cover on the > L2 exam. I can tell you from TI's own IT department (supporting 20K+ > users around the world) that there is not a single server system, not > one, that we install that doesn't support RAID. From the humblest > Compaq file and print all the way up to the big Sun E10Ks...we've got > RAID on all of them. From my experience in other "big" enterprise > shops, the picture looks pretty much the same. > > Hardware vendors have done a great job of selling enterprise IT folks on > the benefits of RAID. HD's with ever increasing storage capacity and > their cost decreasing, RAID continues to become more attractive as a > solution for continous uptime/fault recovery. (Tape backup technology is > just not keeping up with density increases in HD's) > > Our NT techs are expected to be able to support RAID on NT; you can bet > a Linux system admin is going to face the same requirements. Especially > in a production envirionment. > > Anyway, that's my rant, what do you think? > > Jared > > -- > This message was sent from the lpi-examdev mailing list. > Send `unsubscribe lpi-examdev' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to leave the list. > > -- David Mandala, Senior Executive, Special Projects, Linuxcare, Inc. 415 354-4878 x240 tel, 415 701-7457 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. At the center of Linux. -- This message was sent from the lpi-examdev mailing list. Send `unsubscribe lpi-examdev' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to leave the list.
