Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-09 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > > I have four 2.1GB SCSI drives and I want to make three of them into a > > RAID-0 array using the md driver. > > > > I was thinking of using part of the fourth disk as a boot > > partition. What

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-09 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > "Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > > > partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system > > > upgrade is done e.g. from RH4.2 -> 5.0 or 5.0->5.1. > > The only real "secret" is

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-09 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the stuff installed off the CD-ROM generally is not what you need > performance for. What you need performance for is things like news spools, > database data sets, etc. That's what I'm using a RAID-0 for at Sabine -- > it real

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-09 Thread William T Wilson
On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > > for setting up the 'md' device. So anything installed off the CDROM should > > go onto the "boot" (non-md) partition. > > This isn't good. The whole point of using RAID-0 was to get faster > transfers from the /usr, /var, /opt and /usr/src partitions. If I c

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-09 Thread Eze Ogwuma
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > I don't see why you CAN'T just preserve /usr/local and /home (which > should be on separate partitions anyway) and do a fresh install. I suppose I can. This would require preserving /opt, /var/, /usr/src/ /usr/loc

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-08 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > I have four 2.1GB SCSI drives and I want to make three of them into a > RAID-0 array using the md driver. > > I was thinking of using part of the fourth disk as a boot > partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system > upgrade is done e.g. fr

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system > upgrade is done e.g. from RH4.2 -> 5.0 or 5.0->5.1. Everything breaks. The best way to upgrade between major versions of Red Hat is by reinstalling. > Does anyone have any experience upgrad

RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-08 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Hi, I have four 2.1GB SCSI drives and I want to make three of them into a RAID-0 array using the md driver. I was thinking of using part of the fourth disk as a boot partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system upgrade is done e.g. from RH4.2 -> 5.0 or 5.0->5.1. Does anyo