Les Stott wrote:
> So standard usb drives should be fine, firewire i have used, but only on
> later kernels which support the cards (fc6+), esata i'm yet to explore
> but im guessing that it too will have issues with drivers and kernel
> versions like firewire. I pretty much stick to CentOS, and firewire
> drivers aren't available in version 5, so im guessing esata are not
> also. At the end of the day speed is not my biggest concern, i've
> usually got all night to finish backups, which in most cases is plenty
> of time.
>
> oh....and i haven't used them with raid or lvm, but i'm sure they would
> work fine.
The current centosplus kernel for centos5 has firewire added. I'm still
using cento4, and only use firewire to add an external drive into an
existing 2-drive RAID1 long enough for it to sync once a week, then it
is rotated offsite. USB should work just as well for that.
--
Les Mikesell
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