From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Subject: Re: How to build a big file server Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:25:30 +0200 Message-ID: <3EDEFE7A.1090502@gmx.net> References: <1054800852.1997.15.camel@wusel.schnulli.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1054800852.1997.15.camel@wusel.schnulli.de> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Heinz-Josef Claes Cc: ReiserFS List Heinz-Josef Claes wrote: > > - I plan to build a system with IDE 250GB drives. 7 of them for raid 5 > and one hot spare. The OS will be on separate hardware raid 1 on smaller > disks. Does anybody have experience with IDE controllers for the big > disks? Is it better to use hardware raid oder software raid > (performance)? As long as you don't buy pseudo raid solutions like those from promise, you should be better off using hardware raid, especially if one of the disks fails. Performance-wise linux software raid may be faster. > - BTW: I'm using a ZIP drive on the parallel port with reiserfs. Does it > make sense to put the journal for the ZIP drive on the hard disk of the > laptop? NO. If you ever plan to use a zip disk with external journal on another PC, you are completely out of luck. HTH, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/