On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:00, Angus D Madden wrote: > Russell Coker, Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:41:41PM +0100: > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:25, Angus D Madden wrote: > > > When you have completed the configuration the disks will have to be > > > "scrubbed". This could take several hours. Needless to say, you can't > > > add RAID to a production server, it has to be set up with it in the > > > beginning. > > > > For software RAID you can resize the file system to be 96K smaller and > > then add a second disk as RAID-1. > > Russel, would you recommend software RAID with a production system?
Yes. I'm running it on 5 servers at 3 sites. > Have you tried it? Curious. I wonder as well if anyone has tried the > new IDE-RAID controllers. Of course I've tried it. I wouldn't be recommending hacks like the resize by 96K to add RAID to an existing system trick unless I'd tested it thoroughly. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
