Re: Edu mainserver - raid

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Giorgio Pioda]
> I have only 4 disk slots, unfortunately... And for this setup a
> minimum of 5 is fixed, I think.

I believe RAID5 also work with two disks, but it is definitely not
optimal. :)

> I don't remember where and why, but time ago I've read that raid5 is
> not the best choice for NFS mounts. But maybe my memory has been
> hitted from cosmic radiations.

Never heard that, nor had any problems with it, so I doubt its
foundation. :)

> Actually, about NFS / LDAP / Kerberos load balancing. Are some scripts
> available to use KDC / LDAP slaves and to add servers into autofs
> maps?

Not that I am aware of.  Would be nice to get some. Or even better, a
gosa plugin. :)

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen