From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Benecke Subject: Re: Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian 'woody', homebrew 2.4.25 kernel Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:02:12 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <27897.194.60.85.4.1091613610.squirrel@194.60.85.4> <87657ycaf9.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> <4111FBF5.8000806@buttersideup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Tim Small wrote: > Daniel Pittman wrote: =20 >>>see subject (Debian). I've looked at SuSE though, it seems with thei= r >>>setup RAID and ReiserFS is much easier to handle. >>The upcoming release of Debian will feature MD and LVM device creatio= n >>at install time, but is not yet stable; the current stable release do= es >>not support either of them. =20 > Sarge is pretty good at the moment (at least I am running production > systems on it, and have been for the last few months) - the disadvant= age > of installing a new Woody system now is that security updates for it > will probably stop before it's reached the end of it's useful life. = Of Hi Tim, Are you sure? I thought woody will be supported for quite some time. I'= ve been running an updated Debian with a couple self-compiled packages sin= ce 1999, upgraded a couple times but woody has been quite pain-less so far= =2E Only the current set up has been messed up a bit so far. I'm planning to use SysCP (www.syscp.de) as a webhosting management interface, which requires woody - for now. It'll probably switch to Sar= ge when it becomes stable, which is why I don't plan on doing this right n= ow. I was faovouring SuSE because they have more up to date packages (Postf= ix 2.1, Apache 2.0.49, PHP 4.3.4, MySQL 4.0), and because I wouldn't have = to bake my own kernel (I need a couple patches that Debian doesn't supply, most importantly the GRsecurity patch set, and ReiserFS quota and data-logging). But I found that I can get most of the packages via backports.org and dotdeb.net, and that my homebrew 2.4.25 kernel with those patches just = runs far too painlessly to give up right now. > course, as it's Debian, you should be able to upgrade to Sarge > relatively painlessly, but I'd probably rather avoid the hassle, and = go > straight to Sarge now. I think Debian Installer currently includes > support for installing Sarge directly onto md mirrors (including > handling the boot-loader stuff), but I haven't tried it yet... Might= be > worth trying one of the daily builds from: > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ The problem here is that I won't ever see the box. It's a rented dedica= ted server. And the company, they let you choose hardware and distribution = and partitioning but then just install the default with enabled "ssh" and l= et you do the rest. =20 > The disadvantage of installing Sarge yet is that it won't go through = the > official security updates until it is released, but in the mean time, > you can pull security-fixes in from unstable (using apt-pinning if yo= u > like) - sounds nasty but it seems to work quite well in practice. So= rry > for getting distribution-centric on the list! This sounds like too much manual intervention to me. I just want the da= mn thing to run. I'm past the experimenting stage where I compiled half th= e system myself. :-) --=20 Jens Benecke http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europas kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale seit 199= 8 http://www.rb-hosting.de - Webhosting mit Extras - PHP ab =A49 - SSH ab= =A419 http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postf=E4cher, garantiert! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html