Michael wrote:
Does Debian 4 support rebuilding this server's RAID 1 while online? If not, would a viable option for recovery from hard drive failure be a script which uses ldconfig to change root directories to a hot spare which is identical to the other drive? I also just found out about co-processors availible for this series server and is there any reson to have one? Many thanks, --Mike
By co-processor I'm assuming that you're referring to the SSL co-processor/Sun Crypto Accelerator. They're generally only used for https (secure) websites that receive a lot of traffic in order to take the SSL load off of the primary CPU(s). I've also heard of them being used to increase the amount of bandwidth available within SSL encrypted VPN tunnels, but I've personally never tried to use one for either purpose myself. There might also be additional uses for it that I'm not aware of but in general the card is designed to accelerate SSL crypto operations. -Brian