Archive for September, 2008

mdadm is awesome.

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

So, I’m currently running two fileservers.  One at my house which has a 4x500GB RAID5, a 2x250GB RAID0, and runs a few other things for the local network.  Pretty much anything of any relevance gets stuck on the server, the actual computers just get by with whatever minimal hard drive was cheapest.  The other I stash at my mom’s for backup purposes, just in case something truly nasty happens that physically takes out my box at home.  It was originally set up with a 4x200GB RAID5.

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Your web server is a fart filter

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008