[geeks] OT Q: Multiple paths to storage in Linux

Sridhar the POWERful vance at ikickass.org
Thu Apr 11 02:49:02 CDT 2002


On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:

> > > Right now I want to keep the budget tight and investigate the
> > > alternative -> Linux w/ Samba & FC-RAID, redundant.
> > > So far, no good. Anyone else has a clue?
> >
> > AIX or OpenVMS/Alpha with Samba.
>
> Well, cost is a factor here since we're going to run 2 fileservers. An
> x86-machine seems to be the only alternative from my coworkers point of
> view. :-(

Get a used Alpha or RS/6K.

Peace...  Sridhar



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