Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 12:12:14PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On that linux-raid list I told you about, someone was discussing IDE performance. Seems that with their testing, which may or may not have been very accurate, that putting IDE disks on the same or seperate controllers seemed to

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Brian White
They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Rick Hawkins
They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: : : They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's : server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and : use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS : exported. Or would I

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Debian user mail
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS exported. Or would

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Dima
Rick Hawkins wrote: wow, that was fast :) I've downloaded it, and read the docs. I compiled the kernel with support for these devices. They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
Dima [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Put RAIDed disks on one controller and / and swap on another. Well, as I understand it, if you're not using hardware raid, specifically, if you're using IDE, then having the RAIDed disks on the same IDE controller mostly defeats the purpose of RAID (at least RAID

striping, etc.

1997-06-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
I've noticed that linux supports volumes across physical devices. However, I haven't figured out which command to use to set this up. I would like to mount a pair of hard drives on the second controller jointly as /usr. THis volume will also be served out by nfs. Could someone give me a hint

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
You want mdtools (the package) and md device support in the kernel, wither compiled in or as a module. Either works well. I have two RAID0 partitions spanned across two 4 GB SCSI drives. Works great. The md commands actually have useful man pages. If you need more info, feel free to email.

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-19 Thread Rick Hawkins
wow, that was fast :) I've downloaded it, and read the docs. I compiled the kernel with support for these devices. They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and use the other pair as /usr

Re: striping, etc.

1997-06-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: : :wow, that was fast :) : :I've downloaded it, and read the docs. I compiled the kernel with :support for these devices. : :They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's :server. My current thinking is to mount / on the