RE: Partitioning a Web Server
You cant normally boot off software raid if the primary disk fails on Intel.
So hardware raid for boot stuff. for data software raid is fine, in fact
seems to do rather well.
Its quite possible to fill /var and lock a server up to the point access is
not possible. Now I have to admit I have only seen this on Solaris, I assume
its just as possible on Linux. Ditto /home, a user say a DBA can do a data
dump and blow away the entire system if its not seperated out. Seperating
out areas just make sit easier to manage IMHO.
Steven
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Coker [mailto:russell@coker.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 4 April 2003 7:22
To: Jones, Steven
Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Partitioning a Web Server
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:20, Jones, Steven wrote:
> I would strongly disagree, partitioning is very important. Logging should
> be separated out so that a full /var wont stop logging in.
How does a full /var stop people logging in? I just did a quick test and
/bin/login permits logging in for non-root accounts when /var is full.
One thing no-one seems to have mentioned yet is the need for RAID. Relying
on
a single disk for all your data is very risky. Software RAID-1 is cheap and
easy.
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