Re: Learning Linux

2001-12-12 Thread unix guy
Assuming that your Sun Server is running Solaris Hey Jerry: As a Sun Certified Instructor for everything up through performance tuning, I can tell you that their are enough differences that you should been to study up on Solaris right now. I think you will like the Solaris environment beca

Re: RAID question

2001-12-18 Thread unix guy
Hi, the Berkley Raid definitions define RAID 5 as striping with interleved parity.  because of the number of increased writes and read to commit an actual write to disk, this method is normally used with caching in RAM using fast writes as a method to improve performance.  Striping + Mirroring i

Re: RAID Configuration

2001-12-19 Thread unix guy
Bob, buy and read the book Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers. Chapter 7 is a MUST read. The rest will bring you up to speed on the type of RAID configuration based on your workload. It's only 400 pages or so, you should be able to knock it out in a weekend and then