Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-19 Thread Herbert Poetzl
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:35 AM To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org Subject: Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard) On Tuesday 14 February 2006 05:41 pm, John Alberts wrote: I agree 100% that is what I am using

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-19 Thread Sam Vilain
Ehab Heikal wrote: I have bad experience with LVM and raid it is near impossible to fix LVM if you have problems mounting them after a kernel change. LVM is not as supported in the resucue mode in most distro's CDs Which distro was that? Almost every LiveCD I've tried has good LVM support.

RE: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-18 Thread Ehab Heikal
: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:35 AM To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org Subject: Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard) On Tuesday 14 February 2006 05:41 pm, John Alberts wrote: I agree 100% that is what I am using on my vserver host as well and I have enough free space unassigned to last

[Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread Odile Bénassy
Hello,Jacques, hello all! I have set up a few vservers for hosting different web sites on the same machine and keep a separate control of each, and so far I'm happy, thanks! Time comes to get it running for the public, and as the server has a RAID controler (it is Dell's Megaraid), I'm about to

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:57:28AM +0100, Odile Bénassy wrote: Hello,Jacques, hello all! I have set up a few vservers for hosting different web sites on the same machine and keep a separate control of each, and so far I'm happy, thanks! glad to hear! you're welcome! Time comes to get it

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread Christian Heim
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 13:44, HP wrote: well, only on debian the vservers dir goes to /var on all other distros, it's /vservers :) Also on Gentoo ;) -- Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Developer - vserver pgplF41IUZAfl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread Sam Vilain
Odile Bénassy wrote: Hello,Jacques, hello all! I have set up a few vservers for hosting different web sites on the same machine and keep a separate control of each, and so far I'm happy, thanks! Time comes to get it running for the public, and as the server has a RAID controler (it is Dell's

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread Sam Vilain
Christian Heim wrote: well, only on debian the vservers dir goes to /var on all other distros, it's /vservers :) Also on Gentoo ;) I hate that! Such a deep directory... besides, the unix conventions of var, /usr, etc, were made before this use case was considered (/com, anyone?). I think it

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread John Alberts
I recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2850 that I'm using for vservers. I'm using Gentoo for the host and guests. Seems to work really great so far. I purchased 4 10k rpm 73G u320 drives and use them in a single raid5 partition. I then used LVM2 to partiion up the space. Here's the output of

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread Chuck
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 05:41 pm, John Alberts wrote: I agree 100% that is what I am using on my vserver host as well and I have enough free space unassigned to last several years at this point. LVM2 should actually become a permanent built-in part of all file systems :) As I re-do my home

Re: [Vserver] Vservers and RAID (5 hard)

2006-02-14 Thread Christian Heim
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 21:40, you wrote: I hate that! Such a deep directory... besides, the unix conventions of var, /usr, etc, were made before this use case was considered (/com, anyone?). I think it deserves its own TLD (top level directory). Perhaps something more in the unix