RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-02 Thread Bob McGowan
Hi, King, my comments follow your questions, below. I hope this helps. Bob > King Lee asks: > > Thanks Bob McGowan for your very informative reply. I gather that >1. Software raid is OK if problem is I-O bound, i.e., > CPU would normally be idle waiting for I-O. I would agree with

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-02 Thread King Lee
Thanks Bob McGowan for your very informative reply. I gather that 1. Software raid is OK if problem is I-O bound, i.e., CPU would normally be idle waiting for I-O. 2. If we have multiple subsystems, we increase the the I-O bandwidth, and now the CPU may not be keep

RE: NT and Linux

1998-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
> -Original Message- > From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 1998 11:29 PM > To: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: NT and Linux > > > > > On Thu, 28 M

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-31 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michele Comitini wrote: > One great advantage is that you can combine any kind of partitions form > different devices (even a combination of partitions from a mix of IDE > or SCISI hard-disks!) and have different personalities (i.e. RAID-5 for > filesystem partitions, RAID-0

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-29 Thread Michele Comitini
Hello! > > I was surprised to learn that the 2.2 kernel supports software raid > and that the software raid was as fast as hardware raid 5. > Raid 5 does error correction and even if one of the disks > die data can be recovered and the system continue. > The article from www.osnews.com did say

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-29 Thread King Lee
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > King Lee wrote: > >1. Has anyone here had any experience or knowledge > > about software raid. How good is it? > >2. Does Linux support hardware raid 5 > > Just (re)found it! > http://www.osnews.com.

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-28 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
King Lee wrote: >1. Has anyone here had any experience or knowledge > about software raid. How good is it? >2. Does Linux support hardware raid 5 Just (re)found it! http://www.osnews.com./features/04.98/raid.html Very good reading indeed! Enjoy and tell us wh

RE: NT and Linux

1998-05-28 Thread Robbie McGarrigle
-Original Message- From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 8:29 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: NT and Linux >Hello, >I got into a discussion with a system administrator of >a website. The system administrator wishes to use >NT because it su

RE: NT and Linux

1998-05-27 Thread Bob McGowan
> -Original Message- > From: King Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 12:29 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NT and Linux > > > > Hello, > > I got into a discussion with a system administrator o

Re: NT and Linux

1998-05-27 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
King Lee wrote: >1. Has anyone here had any experience or knowledge > about software raid. How good is it? Know nothing about NT. If you look for information on Linux RAID (it's in the Internet, I've read it, can't remember where), it's said that Linux s/w RAID was in fact p