From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 3 15:19:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A886814BE2 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:19:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pantzer@speedy.ludd.luth.se) Received: from speedy.ludd.luth.se (pantzer@speedy.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.164]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA23300; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 00:18:57 +0200 Message-Id: <199909032218.AAA23300@zed.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Troy Settle" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone run an isp with freebsd In-Reply-To: Message from "Troy Settle" of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 13:54:18 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 00:18:56 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I suppose that RAID would be a neat toy to use on the box that hosts /home > (we deliver mail to $HOME/.mail), but until we reach into the 10's of > thousands of users, I doubt we'll really need that much hardware (most users > don't bother with personal web pages, so there's really very little storage > needs for even 3600 users) The most common reason to do RAID5 is to be able to take a disk failure. That has nothing to do with size of anything. You can do it in software if you have low performance needs. Users usualy do not like to loose files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message