RE: Re[2]: Point-of-Sale RAID application

1999-02-23 Thread Brothers, John
Actually, I only need one box, with a mirrored disk and ideally with hot swap/auto rebuild capabilities as well. Thanks for all the help guys. > If you mean to be able to recover from a CPU crash in the middle of a > transaction - OK. But it's definitely not what the original poster had in

Re: Re[2]: Point-of-Sale RAID application

1999-02-23 Thread m. allan noah
actually did not save any hard numbers, but on a 3 disk setup i had here, raid1 was faster under bonnie with the test size 3x my ram. less than that, and i found the results pretty variable. but, our boy was talking about a single hotel firewall, and yet this discussion now revolves around beowul

RE: Re[2]: Point-of-Sale RAID application

1999-02-23 Thread Andy Poling
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Brothers, John wrote: > Actually, I only need one box, with a mirrored disk and > ideally with hot swap/auto rebuild capabilities as well. I would look at the hardware RAID SCSI controllers. They provide always-bootable (i.e. they present a boot sector from the RAID array)