DHCP and Pt-Pt DSL links?

2004-09-06 Thread Neale Banks
Hi all, In running up a new DSL connection today, I came across an "interesting" situation w.r.t. DHCP and point-to-point links. The planned implementation is to have the Netgear DG632 ADSL modem do the PPPoA but pass (by DHCP) the single fixed-IP address to the Linux box on the ethernet (this is

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-06 Thread Dmitry Golubev
> PS: i wouldn't recommend software raid 5 if you care about performance. i > am going to convert one of my raid-5 machines (4 x 80GB barracudas) to > raid-1 (2 x 200GB barracudas) very soon because i'm unhappy with the > performance(*)...if i had a spare approx $600AUD, i'd buy an IDE raid card >

RAID-6 vs. RAID-5?

2004-09-06 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi, could anybody comment, what's the current inofficial quality of RAID6 vs. RAID5? The kernel help does read as if it's pretty beta still. Has anybody bothered trying? Thanks! -- Best regards, Kilian signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-06 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Monday 06 September 2004 13.38, Dmitry Golubev wrote: > > PS: i wouldn't recommend software raid 5 if you care about performance. > > i am going to convert one of my raid-5 machines (4 x 80GB barracudas) > > to raid-1 (2 x 200GB barracudas) very soon because i'm unhappy with the > > performance

Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

2004-09-06 Thread Chris Wagner
At 03:35 PM 9/6/04 +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: >For writing, RAID5 tends to be noticeably slower than RAID1, especially for >writes smaller than stripe size, because a write actually is a >read-recompute-write cycle. If ur looking for a fast RAID product that's reasonabl