Re: Debian and SAN support

2004-02-13 Thread Robin Vley
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:22:46 +0100, J.J. van Gorkum wrote: >Yes, a big one : NFS is non-atomic in it's writing... > >A write action to the (NFS) disk can be interrupted (normal behaviour in >the NFS world). So when the software (even the disk driver) reports that >the data is written to the disk t

Re: Debian and SAN support

2004-02-13 Thread Robin Vley
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:22:46 +0100, J.J. van Gorkum wrote: >Yes, a big one : NFS is non-atomic in it's writing... > >A write action to the (NFS) disk can be interrupted (normal behaviour in >the NFS world). So when the software (even the disk driver) reports that >the data is written to the disk t

Re: Debian and SAN support

2004-02-10 Thread Robin Vley
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:55:55 -0600, Alex Borges wrote: >Would anyone be so kind as to point me to a link where this need may be >described? Because... through my limited knowledge, id nfs or samba the >damned share out of a server and off we go...:)... > >I have the feeling that would put a fast

Re: Debian and SAN support

2004-02-10 Thread Robin Vley
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:55:55 -0600, Alex Borges wrote: >Would anyone be so kind as to point me to a link where this need may be >described? Because... through my limited knowledge, id nfs or samba the >damned share out of a server and off we go...:)... > >I have the feeling that would put a fast

Re: IDE Raid Controller concerns

2003-10-16 Thread Robin Vley
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:12:17 -0600 (MDT), Chris G. wrote: >Controller wise we are looking at the 3Ware Escalade 7506-12 card, but I >have never seen this card in action, and I have no idea how it might >handle the above problem. I only have experience with the "smaller" 4 channel 3Ware controller