Re: Redhat 7.2, XFS, LVM (snapshot), NFS and kernel-2.4.15pre5 happy together?

[Dave Alden <alden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:10:26PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> The Escalade 7800 is just over $300 -- otherwise, it's straight disk
> cost.  If you used (6) 7,200rpm 80GB drives (I'm looking at some Seagate
> Baracudas myself), you'd have 400GB usable for "User" -- reserving 2
> channels for the "System" volume, whatever disk/size you see fit (I
> recommend you don't put your swap, /tmp, /var, etc... on the RAID-5
> volume for performance reasons).

Thanks for the suggestion -- I forgot to mention that I am using a
Mylex (IBM) eXtremeRAID2000 card (with 64M of RAM) to handle the
RAID-5 (these are a bit pricey at almost $2K).  So I guess I'm old
fashioned too.  :-)

...dave