> > Also, do you know if Linux can support Raid 5 easily or is it a pain in > > the butt to get setup properly? > > Support is good. Obviously, you'll want to research your options and > make an educated choice. If you're going with software RAID, you'll be > fine, but most folks will tell you to do hardware RAID. If you do, make > sure you find a vendor that supports Linux and offers cards that rebuild > on the fly.
I'm one of those folks who would recommend hardware raid. Software raid just eats up too much cpu (IMHO). We've been using Adaptec cards, both old and new. We're currently running RedHat AS 2.1 for our Oracle DB server, which has two Adaptec RAID cards: An Adaptec 532 RAID controller for our RAID 1 mirrored boot disks, and an Adaptec 5301/128 RAID controller for our data disks. Work great, never had an issue. And, in my opinion (I'm sure I'll get some disagreement from *somebody*), Adaptec is worth the extra money. My $0.02 USD...:) Ben P.S. You can set it up such that your file server will authenticate to your Windows NT domain through Samba. I set it up once as a test, and it worked great! Unfortunately I have slept since then, so you'd have to go to the samba website and docs to see how to do it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
