RE: [Samba] samba failover plan on unix OS using hardware RAID

2003-06-13 Thread Jeanne Schock
> The RAID hardware is far below samba (or even the operating > system), by design. The way that a RAID 5 works is that if you lose 1 drive, nothing notices > (except the RAID monitor software, which will hopefully start calling pagers to > get the failed drive replaced). Samba won't even notice t

Re: [Samba] samba failover plan on unix OS using hardware RAID

2003-06-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jeanne Schock said on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:19:42PM -0400: > comments. I need to be certain, that if one harddrive fails, that the other > harddrive will continue as the pdc without any disturbance between XP client > and samba server, ie. no loss of trust relationship. Simply put, my bosses > wa

RE: [Samba] samba failover plan on unix OS using hardware RAID

2003-06-13 Thread Jeanne Schock
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:25 PM To: Jeanne Schock; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] samba failover plan on unix OS using hardware RAID Bri- I appreciate the comments. To answer some questions - This is an

Re: [Samba] samba failover plan on unix OS using hardware RAID

2003-06-13 Thread bkrusic
> So, my suggestion is IDE hardware RAID 1, Since you asked, I would go with Raid 5. Your load being 20-30 clients is very light. > is this a standard and good plan? Depends on many factors as your prereqs are generic being reliability and cost. I mean thats just about every ones prereq. You ne