Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Redhat 8.0

[Bob Kanaley]

Adam,

Would you please explain in a little more detail what you mean about RedHat
supporting a real file system?

The company I work for is getting ready for a re-write of some mission
critical software. I had the money for the server last year and had Monarch
build a server with an AMD 1.2GHz Athalon processor, dual hot swap power
supplies and a SCSI Raid 0+1 with a hot swap spare drive.

I had Monarch install RedHat 7.2 with ext3 so I would have a journaling file
system out of the box. The only other journaling file system I have heard
much about is Reiser. Since RedHat only supported ext3, I opted for a
straight RedHat 7.2 with ext3 system. If there is a better file system out
there, I would definitely be interested in knowing what it is and why it is
better.

The Logical Volume Manager concept in RedHat 8 sounds like something I
should be interested in for this project. In your opinion would it be worth
the effort to rebuild this box with RedHat 8 for this feature?

We have a programmer about to start. He will be writing the mission critical
application. I told him we wanted to do open source. He is thinking he wants
to use a PostgreSQL database backend. I would prefer to go with the recently
open sourced version of SAP. If you have any opinions on the database choice
I would love to hear those too.

Also, I had some money left over at the end of this year, so I was able to
pickup some hardware that I might be able to use for this and a couple of
other projects. I bought a dual Xenon motherboard with two 2.4GHz
processors. I will be building a system around this and an Adaptec 39160
Ultra 160 SCSI adaptor, but I don't know if this would be any better
platform for writing the database application.

Does a database app need to be built for dual CPU's from scratch or will the
OS distribute the workload between the two processors if we migrate the
application from the AMD to the dual Xenon system sometime down the road?

Finally, I am getting in pieces and parts to build a couple of Linux boxen
to try out some of the workgroup software (Bynari Server) and maybe
something like MrProject if it can be used by my windoze clients.

I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.


Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com

Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Redhat 8.0
From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Date: 01 Oct 2002 04:48:48 -0400
Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org

>   * Enhanced personal security, featuring a point-and-click firewall
>     tool to protect your system from Internet intruders.

More important than all these combined is LVM in the installer.  I know
that will save me oodles of time,  and finally not longer will one have
to diddle with hard drive partitions.  Just like using a real operating
system.  Now if only they supported a real file system.

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