Fedora on servers

Kevin Fries kevin at hcico.com
Wed Jan 5 06:22:05 UTC 2005


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Les Mikesell wrote:

|On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 22:21, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
|
|>Some ppl argue that software RAID, (not via BIOS) but via LInux Software
|>RAID is a good _enough_ alternative for something like a small SMB
|>server.
|
|
|I've always considered the ability to recover the data from any
|single drive on just able any other computer to be a big
|plus for software RAID1 (mirrors), along with continuing to
|run at full speed with a broken drive.   I don't think I'd
|do RAID5 in software, though.

I run both Software and Hardware raids in Fedora Core 2 & 3.

Mirror in FC2 works like a charm.

But I have RAID-5 machines in both FC2 & FC3 using 3WARE 7500-8
Escallade cards.  Fedora does have some issues with these cards for
some reason.  I recently tried to upgrade a FC2 server to FC3 on a
server that runs this card.  Fedora refused to upgrade from CD so I
had to use an apt-get dist-upgrade style upgrade to get the software
up to core 3 levels.  That is the problem with hardware RAID
controllers... drivers!

Both have a place, and both work, and both have their problems.

Kevin Fries
Network Administrator
Hydrologic Consultants, Inc of Colorado

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