Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread mkn0014
Tom Brown wrote: CF Fails, i can re inject it into a new CF card and away I go. yes if the HD fails ive lost the database, but its a monitoring box, toss a new one in , reboot the box and away we go. but as either cant operate without the other you have just doubled your chances of an

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Tom Brown
CF Fails, i can re inject it into a new CF card and away I go. yes if the HD fails ive lost the database, but its a monitoring box, toss a new one in , reboot the box and away we go. but as either cant operate without the other you have just doubled your chances of an outage rather than

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
I generally will do one of two things in addition to my normal backups. 1. run a cron that exports the database, then gzip it - I rsync that off to another machine. 2. I replicate the database to other machines in the same tier. I agree about the CF failure as well. No biggie. I would copy it's

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Ryan Nichols
John R Pierce wrote: Ryan Nichols wrote: I was trying to get the CF as the system drive and keep the database on a seperate drive incase either failed.. seemed like it made sense at the time.. if the CF fails, it won't boot. if the HD fails, you've lost your database.not sure what the g

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread John R Pierce
Ryan Nichols wrote: I was trying to get the CF as the system drive and keep the database on a seperate drive incase either failed.. seemed like it made sense at the time.. if the CF fails, it won't boot. if the HD fails, you've lost your database.not sure what the gain is here. _

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
It's easy. Look - you can get an IDE -to- CF adapter for about a fiver. Get a 4 or 8 GB CF card and install it on IDE 01. That's your main drive. Set up your other drives in what ever config is necessary. Solo, Software RAID, whatever. Do your install. Either use the partition editor, or boot in

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Ryan Nichols
Michel van Deventer wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 16:38 -0500, Ryan Nichols wrote: Ok.. Im curious.. Can I install CentOS on a compact flash card, then have the MySQL on another drive? to have the compact flash like read only for the OS to boot from, then do the swap, mysql,etc from the

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-08 Thread Michel van Deventer
Hi, On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 16:38 -0500, Ryan Nichols wrote: > Ok.. Im curious.. Can I install CentOS on a compact flash card, then > have the MySQL on another drive? to have the compact flash like read > only for the OS to boot from, then do the swap, mysql,etc from the other > drive? How hard

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash hard drives

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Garrick Staples wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:14:57PM -0700, Robert Moskowitz alleged: Has anyone worked with either the Hitachi or Seagate Compact flash drives in an IDE to CF interface and set the up with EXT3 formatted partitions for use with LVM? I ASSuME that LVM is not for FAT32

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash hard drives

2007-07-18 Thread Garrick Staples
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:14:57PM -0700, Robert Moskowitz alleged: > Has anyone worked with either the Hitachi or Seagate Compact flash > drives in an IDE to CF interface and set the up with EXT3 formatted > partitions for use with LVM? > > I ASSuME that LVM is not for FAT32 formatted drives.