> Software-based RAID 1: Is it usable (only for a data partition, not > required for the root partition)? Is it easy to recover from a broken > disk?
If possible, consider using hardware RAID, like Mylex ones; they are quite expensive, because of SCSI disks, but you gain cpu cycles; I've used Mylex cards on four Red Hat boxes for four years without a problem, and monitored hw status using /proc file system. There are also IDE motherboards with RAID, I own one of them, but I use the "eight devices" feature instead of raid. Consider also the use of kickstart utility shipped with RH, it makes possible to build your own installation disks; of course, Debian also is very powerful at this. I never used RH RPMs for Apache and mod_perl, mostly because of DSO issues. You can also build a card to operate reset buttons remotely. Double power line is a plus ;) Ciao, Valerio Valerio Paolini, <http://130.136.3.200/~paolini> -------------------------------------------------- what is open-source about? Learn, and then give back
