[SlugLUG] Re: Sluglug Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1

[cerise at armory.com]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Linh Hoang wrote:
> I bought supertrack 6000sx and used it under freebsd as a pst device.
> It's not as good as I thought. Actually it's pretty slow and it can't
> be a bootable drive. I am tempted to wipe out fbsd and run with linux
> to see if that would improve anything. 

   It can't hurt.  FreeBSD's filesystem is slower than ext2, though the
sort of sloth you're talking about probably isn't the filesystem's fault.
 
> Do you know if any linux distribution comes with software raid beside
> fedora? What I meant is when you pop in a CD and install linux, it gives
> you an option of doing software raid right that moment so that the software
> raided partition can be booted up right way instead of hacking around
> by installing on one non-software raided and copy them to the software
> raided partition. Thanks for your help :)

   I can't speak for the newer graphical install, but Gentoo has that
capability on the LiveCD.  I'd be shocked if Debian didn't.

-Phil/CERisE