Re: [K12OSN] Server setup

[Bert Rolston <bert rolston clear net nz>]

Hey Stuart,

RAID those drives.

Mirror a couple for your system stuff,

Then do a stripe + mirror for the /home mount point. This will allow up
to 50% of the drives to fail, and remain operational. 

I remember Julius mentioning something about enhancements to RAID quite
a while ago, can't remember the website though.

The alternative is stripe with distributed parity. This only allows 1
drive to fail and still keep running, 2 or more and the data is toast.

This doesn't make the best use of total capacity, but it provides a
reasonable balance between performance + failure protection + storage
capacity.

John Hansknecht gave some suggestions for sizing.

Cheers,
Bert


On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 02:00, Stuart Highlander wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I have  a new server that I am in the process of setting up.  Here are
> the specifications:
> 
> Supermicro SuperServer 6022P-6
> Ultra 160 SCSI
> 6 17 GB Hot swappable Seagate ST318406LC hard drives
> 4 GB RAM
> Dual 1.8 GHz Pentium processors.
> No raid controller the best I can tell.
> Two Intel onboard NICS (eepro100's)
> 
> I am in the process of installing RedHat 8.0 (it is what I have and I am
> comfortable with) on the box and need some help regarding partition
> size/setup to use this box for terminals and software from RedHat 8.0
> that needs to be installed.  Any guidance is welcome.
> 
> Stuart Highlander
> BISD Technology Services
> 
> 
> 
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