[tech] Meito

[Alwyn Nixon-Lloyd]

> Yes, backup to mussel was the plan. Linux will suck less because it
> won't be using pio to talk to the disks - we're getting horrid
> performance out of the thing.

why not just buy a controller that is supported under solaris???

> 
> We *should* be able to get 30-40Mb/sec reads from it, we're actually
> getting 1Mb/sec or so. Even without async writes, it's still going to be
> better under Linux.

really???

Alwyn