on Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:02 PM -0500, Kevin Krieser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> With a "raid" controller, you probably could. Otherwise, the problem
> is that the boot drive has to be seen by the BIOS, so you can't stripe
> the OS partitions accross drives in a purely Linux software solution.
Not true -- there is an option for a software RAID install at boot in
the RH 7.3 installer. If the drives are of the same (or roughly
similar) sizes, you can create a software RAID install. With three
drives, you have a a choice of mirrored or RAID 5 (though I'm not sure
the latter is supported).
> 3.6 gig is perfectly adequate for a Redhat install as long as you
> excercise restraint during the install. You probably won't want to
> install everything.
You can partition the root FS out smaller as well -- the installer
claims that 250 MiB is the recommended minimum for /, my standard
partitioning suggestions are at
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
On a recent RH 7.3 install, I'd allocated 196 MiB to root, with separate
/boot, /var, /tmp, /usr, and /home partitions. A co-worker reported
that he'd run out of space on / doing an RPM update after installation,
though he didn't investigate where the problem was specifically. I'd
think that in general, 96-128 MiB ought to be more than sufficient, but
haven't experimented sufficiently.
> Drives are getting so cheap nowadays that the major reason to support
> small drives (for just an individual user) is to prove that you can,
> or just to use the drives that are perfectly good, if small. (I have
> a couple 4 gig SCSI drives that I insist on using for this very
> reason. Since I also have a 100gig /home disk in the computer, lack
> of disk space isn't a reason).
Other possibilities come to mind, including handheld, mobile, and
embedded devices, for which storage might range from a few tens of MiB
to a GiB or so. In this case, I'd either look for a RH system aimed at
the embedded space, or go with a lighter, more configurable
distribution, likely Debian or a bootable system based off of it
(package lists and archives are a significant overhead in Debian--
about 10 MiB for lists, and 260 MiB for archives, on my current
'testing' box.
That said, yes, storage is cheap.
Cheers.
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