[rescue] Filesystem choice for fileserver?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>
>Date: 2008/04/18 Fri AM 07:10:49 CDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Filesystem choice for fileserver?

>On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:07:29AM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
>[...]
>> Agree with you on this one. In addition, the ability to be able to just
>> pop the disks into a replacement machine running the same OS, as you can
>> with software RAID, is a huge advantage. With hardware RAID, you'd need to
>> find the same model of controller, etc.
>
>When I last bought a hardware RAID card, I bought *two* and then swapped the
>spare card in after building the array to see if it was still readable.
>
>... and then it turned out that Linux software RAID was faster anyway.

<homer Simpson>
   DOH!
</Homer Simpson>

(that has made it across the ocean, right?)

Lionel