Jeffrey,
Don't get me wrong, this was not my choice, I have absolutely no IT
budget and it's likely to remain that way although I would like to get a
well supported SATA controller. The benefits of small business computing :)
Derek, if you're reading this, i've tried yanking a drive before and the
system doesn't crash, but any disk access hangs. I wish i could spec a
higher quality controller but i have a feeling it will be rejected outright.
If either of you could weigh in on AFS on top of DRBD i'd appreciate it,
I'm not fully up on whether a second server with an identical filesystem
could be made to take over a crashed AFS machine. I appreciate all the
help so far and wish there was a way i could donate back.
Regards,
Paul
Jeffrey Altman wrote:
Paul Robins wrote:
Jeffrey,
I appreciate your lengthy reply, you've confirmed many of the things I
was wondering about. The big issue when it comes to the server
situation is that a disk dying will infact kill the entire server as
these are low budget whiteboxes with basic SATA controllers, nothing
particularly impressive.
I really must question the wisdom of decisions that save a few hundred
dollars in hardware at the cost of significant numbers of hours of
administrator and end user time.
Jeffrey Altman
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