[TriLUG] Linux Fileserver to replace w2k

[bp]

Jason Tower wrote:

>RHAS 2.1 does not support LVM but redhat 9 does, setting it up during 
>installation is a snap.  there are no GUI tools post-install, but the CLI 
>tools work well.
>
>for a file server with dual IDE disks you can easily do LVM on top of software 
>RAID 1, which gives you the benefits of LVM and disk redundancy at the same 
>time without expensive scsi raid hardware.  i've done this on several boxes 
>and have never had any problems.  if you want raid 5 i'd suggest using a 
>3ware ide raid controller instead of software raid, but for mirroring 
>software raid is usually fine.  good luck!
>

We aren't storing anything important so RAID redundancy is not a goal, 
rather having a single mount point span several physical volumes.  (I'm 
scraping together several old smaller drives)

So, it sounds like RedHat 9 could handle 3 drives setup as a big'ol 
logical /public mount? 
RH9 is stable/released now, right?
-bp