Re: Minutes of the GNOME Foundation Board meeting 28 November 2000

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> 
> >  - I probably would still be nervous about ext3 on general principle,
> > but if Alan says it is OK, I trust him.
> 
> I have 180Gig of disk on ide raid with ext3.

Without going into a lot of hand wringing on this.  Whats wrong with using
reiserfs?  

> >  - If somebody has a recommendation for a SCSI raid controller that
> >    is reliable and trouble-free to configure with Linux, and not
> >    horribly expensive, finding the means to purchase it shouldn't 
> >    be a problem.
> 
> I can recommend several reliable ones but except for the older AMI
> Megaraid cards they are priced for 'enterprise customers'. Its not
> beyond the realm of possibility that a pair of 45Gig IBM ide disks (or
> 4x20 gig even more so) with an ide raid card will be both cheaper and
> faster than buying something like an ICP vortex or a DAC960.

Why not ask someone in the advisory committee to see if their company
would donate something?  I'm sure Sun, VA Linux, and RedHat  could cough
up something thats enterprise worthy.

	sri