[olug] Raid and or Journaling

[Phil Brutsche]

Mike Peterson wrote:

> Has anyone had good luck using Linux Software RAID?


To a point.  There are simply some things a software RAID system simply 
can't do.


> Has anyone had good luck running Reiser or JFS or Ext3 or other journaling
> file systems with Linux?


Yes.

Until very recently Reiserfs has has performance problems.

Ext3 is very nice, especially that part about being backwards-compatible 
with ext2 :)

I haven't used anything else.


> If so, what distribution are you running and how many users?


Debian w/ about 25 users.


> Also is it for file serving, web serving, database serving, mail serving or
> combined?


All of the above.



Phil


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