Hello Pietro, On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:44:30PM +0100, Pietro Melideo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I would plan to buy two Dell PowerEdgeTM 850 (small 1 single pentium > rack servers) > and configure them as mirrors with TSL 2.2, synchronized with rsync > so one server is for web > presence and the second is the backup synchronized every 2 hours. > > Someone of you have experienced with these 1U servers or more, more > in general with Dell servers? > Any incompatibilities, malfunctions?
I have a production mail server running on a 750. This one uses an Intel ICH6 SATA disk controller. Not sure about the 850. These disk controllers are poorly supported by the stock 2.4 kernel used by TSL 2.2. It boots, but performance is pathetic (PATA mode). Kernel 2.6 is required for proper native SATA support. I had to hack a 2.6 kernel into TSL 2.2. Apart from the disk controller, support for the rest of the h/w (e.g. the on-board Gig-E LAN controllers) was trouble-free (even using stock kernel), and the machine is quite stable. Ciao, _Alain_ _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
