Linux NFS server

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:26:08 EST
Mark Komarinski said:

>On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:33:40AM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:

>> If you don't have the money, I'd go with a standard PC server 
>> combined with a small external RAID array connected via SCSI3.
>
>BTW, if you're doing this, really take a look at LVM.  We're buying
>IBM boxes with RAID built in, and use LVM to create the filesystems
>we need.  It's still a manual process (CLI) and you have to unmount
>ext2/3 filesystems if you want to resize, but XFS/ReiserFS(?) can
>resize on the fly.

Why not use EVMS, which is from IBM, runs native on Linux, has a GUI, 
and is (supposedly) far more flexible than LVM?

Did you not know about EVMS at the time, or were you already heavily 
dependant upon LVM?

I'm not advocating EVMS over LVM.  I have no real first hand 
knowledge of either.  But based on my cursory review of their 
respective feature sets, EVMS seems like it would be a better tool 
overall.  Especially since it's slated to be included in the 2.6/3.0 
kernel.

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Seeya,
Paul
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