Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-15 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Samuel Flory on Saturday, September 13, 2003 11:47 AM said: You need to create a partition that will be a part of the raid array on each disk. So the followiing is what I do: Yes, I finally figured this out. So far the computer is working e

RE: help with partitioning

2003-09-15 Thread Chris W. Parker
Samuel Flory on Saturday, September 13, 2003 11:47 AM said: > You need to create a partition that will be a part of the raid array > on each disk. So the followiing is what I do: Yes, I finally figured this out. So far the computer is working excellently. It's mu

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-13 Thread George Nicholls
The redhat manuals (rh9) are quite good; I got my RAID5 working with their help first time. You can read them online or download the rpms from redhat.com HTH G On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 20:47, Samuel Flory wrote: > Chris W. Parker wrote: > > >Samuel Flory > >on Friday

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Samuel Flory on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:38 PM said: Ok I'm convinced, I'll use RAID. I found this page http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-so ftware-raid.html which you'd think would be the perfect set of

RE: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Chris W. Parker
Samuel Flory on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:38 PM said: Ok I'm convinced, I'll use RAID. I found this page http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-so ftware-raid.html which you'd think would be the perfect set of instructions. BUT IT'S

RE: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 20:37, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Jason Dixon <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:27 PM said: > > > No, but why not? Honestly, you haven't been very descriptive, except > > to say "help with partitioning".

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Samuel Flory on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:08 PM said: Use software raid 5 on each disk: Will this degrade the performance much? This will increase performance of reads a lot, and degrades write performance a little. As this is a we

RE: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Chris W. Parker
Jason Dixon <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:27 PM said: > No, but why not? Honestly, you haven't been very descriptive, except > to say "help with partitioning". What are your priorities- > stability, recoverability, tons of webs

RE: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Jason Dixon
o use RAID at all? Can I not just use each drive > separately? (Only asking because I don't know any better. ;) ) No, but why not? Honestly, you haven't been very descriptive, except to say "help with partitioning". What are your priorities- stability, recoverability, tons o

RE: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Chris W. Parker
Samuel Flory on Friday, September 12, 2003 5:08 PM said: >Use software raid 5 on each disk: Will this degrade the performance much? I've read that software RAID is quite a bit slower than hardware RAID. Also, do I have to use RAID at all? Can I not just use eac

Re: help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Samuel Flory
Chris W. Parker wrote: Hey people. I've got a new computer with 3 scsi drives at 17gb each. This machine is going to be used as a web server. I've only done one other install (tried twice on same machine) and it had only one HD and a much much smaller one at that, so this seems to be a different b

help with partitioning

2003-09-12 Thread Chris W. Parker
Hey people. I've got a new computer with 3 scsi drives at 17gb each. This machine is going to be used as a web server. I've only done one other install (tried twice on same machine) and it had only one HD and a much much smaller one at that, so this seems to be a different ball game. How can I be