Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Jason Bacon
On Friday 02 January 2004 07:19 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jason Bacon wrote: > > Well, I'm in a position to provide some comparison data with not-too-many > > variables, > > Thanks much for sharing the results. > > They seem close enough that

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Jason Bacon
On Thursday 01 January 2004 07:09 am, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > As for RAID, we use Vinum, but only because I inherited a bunch of > > machines with hot-swap SCSI bays and no hardware RAID. It works well, > > once you have it set up, and I've even manag

Re: What do you use?

2004-01-02 Thread Jason Bacon
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 02:04 pm, Francisco wrote: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Jason Bacon wrote: > > 3ware IDE RAID. > > Agree on the 3ware controllers. > > > No such thing as cheap tape backups. :-( > > If the amount of data can compress into a CD or DVD

Re: What do you use?

2003-12-31 Thread Jason Bacon
3ware IDE RAID. Yahoo did the beta testing on these and they perform quite well on anoything above 4.5. No such thing as cheap tape backups. :-( JB On Wednesday 31 December 2003 01:06 pm, Sean Hafeez wrote: > I need to build a file server for work. I was wondering what people on > th

Re: Mounting CDROM as user under 5.x

2003-12-31 Thread Jason Bacon
If anyone's interested in a programmed solution, you can download my "supermounter" from http://www.neuro.mcw.edu/~bacon/fmri.html. It runs SUID root (you can change this to SUID whatever you want by modifying the Install script if you're concerned about security) and lets you specify which devic