Hi :) Well, I had to install RH 6.1 yesterday on a Compaq Proliant with 4 x 18.2 GB UW SCSI disks, 2 x Xeon and 1GB RAM (one hell of a machine). Had to setup RAID 5 and SAMBA, til here everybody might think is normal. Well, what astonished me is that in RH's 6.1 graphical installation you can automatically partition a disk and setup RAID (via software). This REALLY eases things up: you don't have to fuss around editing files and swearing in every language you know. The thing is: can SuSE do this? I'm not going to change over to RH, obviously. Just wondered if SuSE had this ease or, if it doesn't, if it's thinking of something like that for a near future. Thanks all :) Rafa -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Suse supposedly does LVM during install- which does (basically if I am not worng) raid0, striping. Of course I always had to go back after install and redo all the lvm stuff because the LVM yast portion kept locking up. Don't know about raid, but I have never really seen the good points of software raid, and LVM does all I really need it to do on my non HW raid machines. -mab At 8:37 AM +0100 3/17/00, Rafael Griman wrote:
Hi :)
Well, I had to install RH 6.1 yesterday on a Compaq Proliant with 4 x 18.2 GB UW SCSI disks, 2 x Xeon and 1GB RAM (one hell of a machine). Had to setup RAID 5 and SAMBA, til here everybody might think is normal. Well, what astonished me is that in RH's 6.1 graphical installation you can automatically partition a disk and setup RAID (via software). This REALLY eases things up: you don't have to fuss around editing files and swearing in every language you know.
The thing is: can SuSE do this? I'm not going to change over to RH, obviously. Just wondered if SuSE had this ease or, if it doesn't, if it's thinking of something like that for a near future.
Thanks all :)
Rafa
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Morning Michael :)
Suse supposedly does LVM during install- which does (basically if I am not worng) raid0, striping. Of course I always had to go back after install and redo all the lvm stuff because the LVM yast portion kept locking up. Don't know about raid, but I have never really seen the good points of software raid, and LVM does all I really need it to do on my non HW raid machines.
-mab
Didn't know about this option on SuSE, thanks :) On RH you can select RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5 (what they wanted). It's VERY useful because you don't have to go back and redo anything (at least until today everything's working fine). It would be a VERY good idea to include this option on SuSE's 6.4 release or, in any case, the next releas after 6.4. I'm no RAID guru either, just had to setup RAID via sw because they had no RAID hw: just a couple of disks. Thanks Michael :) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Rafael Griman wrote:
Well, I had to install RH 6.1 yesterday on a Compaq Proliant with 4 x 18.2 GB UW SCSI disks, 2 x Xeon and 1GB RAM (one hell of a machine). Had to setup RAID 5 and SAMBA, til here everybody might think is normal. Well, what astonished me is that in RH's 6.1 graphical installation you can automatically partition a disk and setup RAID (via software). This REALLY eases things up: you don't have to fuss around editing files and swearing in every language you know.
The thing is: can SuSE do this? I'm not going to change over to RH, obviously. Just wondered if SuSE had this ease or, if it doesn't, if it's thinking of something like that for a near future.
No, unfortunately not yet. However, you can set up LVM and Journaling File systems with YaST1. IMHO software based RAID5 is a kludge anyway. A serious server should have hardware RAID with logical volumes on top of it. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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