Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Danny Sauer <suse-linux-e.suselists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henry wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Mail Server purchasing decision' on Thu, Sep 02 at 08:34:
[...]
> That said, comments on flaky drivers are starting to worry me.  Should I
> can the Ghost idea and rely on tarring/dumping to a Samba share on
> another server?  That way I could use s/w RAID and avoid sketchy
> drivers.

I don't know who's complaining about flaky hardware raid drivers, but I've
been using various big name raid cards under Linux for 10 years and have
*never* had a problem with them.  A hardware RAID card is pretty much the
same from a driver perspective as a SCSI card, essentially.

Just go with someone who's well supported.  I like 3ware's products, but
the other big names are fine too.  As long as you're not using some POS
promise card - which is as likely to have problems in hardware as in the
drivers - you should be fine.  And hardware RAID *is* better than software
raid in an enterprise situation (you're not likely to be mixing IDE and
SCSI drives there).

Then again, I'd probably tell you to use Reiser for a server mailstore
(if you're doing it the smart way w/ Maildir), and I don't recall ghost
working nicely with Reiser.  So ghost may not be an option anyway. :)

--Danny, who uses rsync + hardlinks to make daily snapshots...