This post kind of got lost and neglected. But in any case, I assume
when you say raid-0 (striping), you really mean raid-1 (mirroring). I
don't know much about servers, but I figure redhat would be a good bet.
I like Mandrake much better for desktops, but redhat is concentrated on
their server markets. Plus Warren is working on things for redhat right
now that could make it a bunch better. As far as raid cards go, a lot
of people like the 3-ware cards. I have no idea about their
availability right now. Otherwise 2 hard drive channels on the
motherboard and linux kernel raid does just fine. Make sure you set all
the good parameters in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks, such as use DMA and
maybe something like -X 68 (man hdparm). And you'll get good
performance and reliability. But like has been said before, you won't
get any protection from hacks or similar things, since raid backs up
simultaneously, so you'll probably want something like a CD burner or if
you want to go old-school, a tape drive.
-Eric Hattemer
message untrimmed because it seems to have been ignored earlier:
Dustin Cross wrote:
Aloha,
What is the best distro choice for a simple web/webmail server. My SuSE
7.3 Sparc Ultra II server has been great for over two years, but I am
starting to worry that I don't have any routine back-ups or disk
mirroring. If anything happened to this server Sandi would be very unhappy.
I am thinking of building an inexpensive x86 with cheap IDE raid 0
controller and two drives. Is there a solid distro that is easy to keep up
to date, (i.e. automated)? I use SuSE's Online Update all the time now and
it works okay. Do any of the other distros have anything better? What
about Gentoo and its "emerge"?
I don't have much time to spend keeping this system up-to-date and
secure.Sadly my best security defense has been using sparc hardware, NO ONE
writes exploits for Linux on Sparc hardware. If I switch to an inexpensive
x86 systems this won't be the case anymore.
So what does everyone reccomend?
My currect systems is:
SuSE 7.3, Apache, Postfix, Imap, Squirrel Mail, PHPGroupware, Spam
Assassin, and Procmail
What I am looking for is reccomendation on distro (SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake,
Gentoo, etc) and recomendation for inexpensive IDE Raid 0 card that works
with linux.
Or maybe I should just buy a second 36GB SCA SCSI drive, rebuild my Sparc
and use software raid to mirror the drives. What does everyone think about
Gentoo for this?
Is there any benefit to the inexpensive IDE raid cards over software raid?
Mahalo,
Dusty
P.S. I would use my beloved OpenBSD for this but then I waste the second
CPU in my Ultra II and I didn't see any inexpensive IDE raid cards
supported under OpenBSD.
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