RE: A few questions
M.C.,
You can mount all three drives at a single mount point if you use software raid. For instance, you would just put sda sdb sdc all under md0, md0 then is seen as one drive. The only problem is that you will lose about 1/3 of disk space under RAID5. The good thing is that your data is redundant. I do not know anything about the hardware your using but you should go check out the RAID how-to's. I believe that there is also a RAID users group for Debian.
Gregory Green
http://www.advantagecom.com
-----Original Message-----
From: M.C. Vernon [SMTP:mcv21@cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 5:48 PM
To: Gregory Dickinson
Cc: Debian User
Subject: Re: A few questions
Dear Greg,
>1.) For the storage on this site, we have acquired an old Proliant RAID cabinet
>and populated it with 7 4.1 gb drives (28 gb total) and we are dedicating 3 of
>these drives to our ftp site. I am looking for a way (if it is possible) to mount all
>three of these drives at a single mount point to cut down on silly long directory
>structures. Any ideas?
You can't use a single mount point - that's like trying to make 3
different files occupy the same filename. Probably best to install them as
/mnt1 /mnt2 and /mnt3. Shouldn't make the filenames any longer :)
I can't help with the other two problems :(
HTH,
Matthew
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