Implementing Hardware RAID on FreeBSD by Dan Langille -- Want better performance, higher reliability, and better recovery possibilities from your disks? Try RAID. Dan Langille recently made the switch to hardware RAID on his FreeBSD box; here's how he did it.
When I read this article, it struck me as something I would wish I saved, so hear it is :)
The author mentions buying his drives at OEM Express, which is cool because I do my shopping in the Edmonton location.
Over the past little while, I've been thinking about replacing my Slackware file/authentication server with FreeBSD. To be clear, I absolutely love Slackware for being what it is and nothing else. Unfortunately, what it is is not extremely well suited to my current setup.
If you read my Linux and Windows Interoperability post, you know that I use LDAP authentication on my network. Usually, with other Linux distributions and FreeBSD, this is achieved through the use of PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules. Slackware, however, does not support PAM because of its past security vulnerabilities. Slackware being the server in my setup, it is manageable, but authentication only half works for users that exist only in the LDAP directory.
In many many cases, PAM is completely unnecessary, and in those cases I will continue to use Slackware over anything else. Here at home, on the other hand, FreeBSD will be a worthy replacement just as soon as I come up with a plan for a swift replacement and the time to carry it out.
12/12/04: FreeBSD RAID
Implementing Hardware RAID on FreeBSD by Dan Langille -- Want better performance, higher reliability, and better recovery possibilities from your disks? Try RAID. Dan Langille recently made the switch to hardware RAID on his FreeBSD box; here's how he did it.
When I read this article, it struck me as something I would wish I saved, so hear it is :) The author mentions buying his drives at OEM Express, which is cool because I do my shopping in the Edmonton location. Over the past little while, I've been thinking about replacing my Slackware file/authentication server with FreeBSD. To be clear, I absolutely love Slackware for being what it is and nothing else. Unfortunately, what it is is not extremely well suited to my current setup. If you read my Linux and Windows Interoperability post, you know that I use LDAP authentication on my network. Usually, with other Linux distributions and FreeBSD, this is achieved through the use of PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules. Slackware, however, does not support PAM because of its past security vulnerabilities. Slackware being the server in my setup, it is manageable, but authentication only half works for users that exist only in the LDAP directory. In many many cases, PAM is completely unnecessary, and in those cases I will continue to use Slackware over anything else. Here at home, on the other hand, FreeBSD will be a worthy replacement just as soon as I come up with a plan for a swift replacement and the time to carry it out.