Re: Linux and Intel RST

2023-02-07 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
>> How do we uncomplicated all of this stuff. You pay microsoft, apple, or google to "uncomplicate" it for you. Pay no attention to them siphoning everything you do while on their os. -mb On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 6:16 PM wrote: > Around 1984 or so there was a poster in the Army National Guard

Re: Linux and Intel RST

2023-02-07 Thread AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
All, Thanks for the replies so far. I have to agree with Keith here. I've been around in tech since the Apple II+ days (before IBM PC) and have been dismayed at the needless complexity of many systems, especially on the database side of things. Not that I can complain too loudly, I made very go

Re: Linux and Intel RST

2023-02-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Around 1984 or so there was a poster in the Army National Guard building in Tucson that read something like "Keep It Simple Stupid" and went on to say everything should be at an 8th grade level. I was first introduced to Linux in 1998... I took my first programming course in 1983 at the UofA.

Re: Linux and Intel RST

2023-02-07 Thread Todd Cole via PLUG-discuss
I have a laptop setup similar. it had space for a 2.5 ssd and a nvme so zfs *RAID-Z1* worked well. They are not the same speed but zfs raid 1 was worth it to me and still very fast for my uses. I currently have it *RAID-Z0 on it so that I have more room for my vm's but no redundancy so i just have

Re: Linux and Intel RST

2023-02-07 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
That sounds like what they call "fakeraid" using the rst controller, really there is no need to anymore. For probably 15 years now i've used two disks in a linux mdraid volume for boot/rest in raid 1 for redundancy, usually a crypt volume with luks atop the rest physical volume, and lvm atop that

Linux and Intel RST

2023-02-07 Thread AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
Hi All, Ok, I'm finally very close to being able to go to a full Linux environment and leave the Microsoft ecosystem. I'm semi-retired and still do some Microsoft Data Platform work (which was my career). I recently got a Dell Latitude and put Kubtunu 22.04 on it and managed to get all my appl