Re: RH to Debian migration
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:38, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> --- 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.
RAID0 - striping - if 1 disk dies, there goes all your data!
RAID1 - mirroring - if 1 disk dies, your data is still safe.
And like the others, I recommend making the firewall it's own box.
Dumpster dive for a old box...
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