RE: [MLUG] Hunk o' hunk o' spinning disk

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Well, here's an answer you may or may not like, depending on 
> the size of
> your disks. I'm guessing you could just trade your 20 disks 
> in at a place
> that does repairs for a single 120 gig IDE disk and a nice 
> controller.  I
> mean, if the alternative is:
> 
> > My first thought is due to the sheer number of disks I'm 
> going to need
> > two dual-channel SCSI controllers, which then makes me wonder about
> > the availability of system resources to drive four SCSI buses in
> > addition to the two internal IDE buses, the sound card, the serial
> > mouse...  :-)
> 
> Then I know that *I* would run screaming. :-)

Oh, I know.  The disks have sat unused for this long because I didn't want to deal with it (walked away with suspicious looks over my shoulder).  But not I'm thinking about it as a nice juicy project that has other uses beyond these dinky disks, so it might even be worth the practice.

I'm probably going to give LVM a shot.  That sounded good (crossing fingers).  Unless anyone else has a magical idea.

--J

P.S.  I want to be able to hot-add a disk to the array, but not necessarily hot-remove, since that's obviously much more difficult.  (Besides, the whole point is to use up a bunch of disks, not just 'plug in, unplug, plug in, unplug'.  :-)

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