We have been running a mix of Redhat Linux, Fedora Linux, Kubuntu Linux, and
Sun Solaris 8 on our servers and some desktops since Redhat 6.0.
It is finally time to replace our last sun server. The only thing that this
machine does is share files via nfs to our network of about 50 users and 18
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:41 -0400, Jon Shorie wrote:
We have been running a mix of Redhat Linux, Fedora Linux, Kubuntu Linux, and
Sun Solaris 8 on our servers and some desktops since Redhat 6.0.
It is finally time to replace our last sun server. The only thing that this
machine does is
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Jon Shorie jsho...@medinaco.org wrote:
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5400 2.7 GHz Processor or
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33 GHz Processor
Just a quick note on the processors: don't be deceived by the lower speed
of the Quad processor. The Quad is much faster than
Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:41 -0400, Jon Shorie wrote:
We have been running a mix of Redhat Linux, Fedora Linux, Kubuntu Linux, and
Sun Solaris 8 on our servers and some desktops since Redhat 6.0.
It is finally time to replace our last sun server. The only thing that this
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 21:44 +0100, Tosh wrote:
3 - I really like having at least a mirror RAID (RAID 1) on the boot
volume as well as the data drives so in a server I wouldn't necessarily
segregate the OS from the data on physical drives but rather in
different RAID partitions.
I also
If you have hardware RAID, a drive failure shouldn't take the system
down at all.
Often not true. It's a lot better with SATA than PATA or SCSI. There are
various ways failed devices can jam up busses and its not unknown for
them to trigger controller bugs even in brand name setups. With SCSI
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 21:12 +, Alan Cox wrote:
If you have hardware RAID, a drive failure shouldn't take the system
down at all.
Often not true. It's a lot better with SATA than PATA or SCSI. There are
various ways failed devices can jam up busses and its not unknown for
them to
