I'm considering buying a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with 3 SCSI drives (no hardware raid) for use as a file, print, database, email/groupware and intranet server. I'm also considering whether to use Linux or FreeBSD - I have some experience with both but have never used software raid on either. I feel that FreeBSD would be a more stable and secure OS for a server.
From my research so far, it seems that I can use Vinum to set up software RAID 5, but that the root partition can not be RAID 5 and that there are other complexities with using Vinum on the root partition. I would welcome suggestions for how to set up the disk partitions and Vinum for this type of server. Also, should I be looking at FreeBSD 5.1 or would 4.8 be a safer bet at this stage? Thanks in advance, Tom Munro Glass _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
