From: "Geo." 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> That's not quite right Geo, there are other journaling files systems that
> are better than ext3.  I would probably (and do) use reiser since it's the
> oldest.

Why was the guy suggesting ext2 then?

> Software based raid 0 is going to be sucky, any of the RAID levels should
> only be done with hardware if you want decent speed.

I agree for all but mirroring, that can be done in software with a pair of
drives quite easily with no noticeable load (except during bootup sync) on
the machine. It's one of the reasons I'm using mirroring on a number of web
servers now, cheap redundancy.

Geo.

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