Re: RH to Debian migration
--- Wolfgang Fischer <Wolfgang_.fischer@freenet.de> escribió:
> > 1 fileserver (2x80GB RAID-0) houses user home directories, is the print
> > server
> Using RAID0 for a fileserver like this is very inefficient. If users open
> a small file, both disks have to read a part of the file. I'd recommend
> you to make 2 independent disks, each for some home directories. RAID0 is
> only an advantage if you need really fast sequential file access. As all
> data will be transfered via network, the speed of one disk will be enough.
> Furthermore, a disk failure won't destroy all data.
The file server has a Promise RAID, and the former admin told me that the disks
were just mirrored (he said it was RAID0, but I am not familiar with the
RAID specifications). They way he explained it is that if one drive goes down,
the backup contains an identical copy of all data.
-Roberto
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