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From: "John Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: [SLUG] RAID advice wanted
> Hi all,
>
> I need to build a new server with RAID 1. Can anyone tell me how
> reliable the RAID support in 2.2 is? What about 2.4? Is 2.4 stable
> enough for a production server or should I stick with 2.2?
>
> Any advice on setting up RAID, including the root partition?
Don't use software RAID
If it's performance you want, you need hardware RAID
If it is hot plug redundancy or server uptime (ie tolerance to disk
failure), you need hardware RAID
Sorry, this seems a terse reply, but after years in the integration game, I
could boil my experiences down to those three rules.
The only time I would use software RAID is where you want to save buying a
larger disk and join two smaller disk (partitions) together to make a larger
logical partition (say for a samba server)
Ian
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