Re: Shared Storage?

"WipeOut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I am going to be setting up a couple of linux servers in the near future
> and these servers will have ever increasing storage needs..
>
> One server will be a web/file server and the other will be a mail server..
>
> I don't want to keep moving the data to bigger drives, I want to have
> the servers use a shared storage facility that runs RAID and that
> capacity can be increased as needed..

While Nik has offered good suggestions, he doesn't seem to have ever asked
you *why* you want to share the storage between the two servers rather than
simply use directly-attached storage with each one.  That would give you two
separate DAS arrays, each of which could be expanded according to need - and
almost certainly the overall least-expensive solution, if there's no actual
need to share the storage.

- bill