[WBEL-users] Software raid and User Mode Linux CD burning on WBEL

[Alex Georgiev]

Hi all,

I want to move the company file server from gentoo to WBEL or
other RHEL recompiled distro.

The mother board is an old intel 820 desktop board with 512MB ram,
Pentium III 500MHz. This server provides the following services for 15 
windows/linux clients:
	
	oracle, samba, nfs, cvs, mail (smtp, pop3), dhcp, dns, http	
	
the average load is very, very low.
Except upgrading to WBEL I want to do 2 additional things:

1. Setup a network CD burning software under UML
We are using a separate machine for cd burning with webCDcreator,
I would like to move the cd burning to the file server, but
as some times cd burning makes the kernel panic, I think that I should setup
User Mode Linux on the file server and provide this service under UML, expecting
that a kernel panic in the UML, will not affect the underlying WBEL file server. 
I intent to put a CD writer device and a CDROM device on separate channels of 
the onboard IDE controller.


2. Setup a software Raid 0 (mirror) with two 200GB disks using an
additional PCI IDE controller, The one I can found here is:
	
	EIO AP-1680 Ultra ATA/133 IDE RAID Controller Card
	
	http://www.ivmm.com/eio/products_ap1680.html with chip set			 
http://siimage.cubik.com/products/sii0680.asp

This one is a cheap RAID controller, but I intend to use it as a pure
IDE controller, connect the two disks on separate channels,
and set up a software mirror, on wich to install WBEL, user data and Oracle.

I shall buy a new 450 Watt power unit for the box.

I have not used either EIO AP-1680 controller, UML or software raid so far,
and I will highly appreciate any comments and suggestions.

Best regards.
A. Georgiev