On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:31:35 +0100, Martin Apel wrote:
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>We are currently running a 2.4.12 kernel on a SMP machine serving 270 G
>from a hardware RAID 5 system via NFS and Samba. I used a standard kernel
This is roughly the same size we will be serving. We also use a hardware RAID.
We will mainly serve for Windows boxen, i.e. using Samba, but there is also a
minor need for NFS service.
>and then applied the following patches:
> linux-2.4.12-xfs-2001-10-11.patch.bz2
> LVM 1.0.1-rc4
Just for my education: Why is it that you use LVM? To be able to grow the
filesystem while it's online? Please reply off-list if you feel this is off-
topic here.
>If you are planning to serve NFS you should also apply one patch which
>is part of 2.4.13. I can send it to you if you want to.
Interesting question: Then why aren't you using 2.4.13? :-)
Thanks so far for your advice.
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