[tech] v6

[Ian McKellar]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 21:21, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> Another example of something we could do cheap and well by going down 
> the PC path is /home. For a few hundred dollars a couple of 120Gb 
> ATA100 drives could be purchased. These could then be mirrored, whacked 
> into a Linux / BSD / Solaris x86 machine with a decent ATA100 card. 
> They would /massively outperform/ morwong's disks.

One of my friends recently upgraded his mp3 server to just over half a
terabyte of raid5 (I think) really cheaply using a 3ware card (so it
looks like SCSI to linux) and 4 of the $150 200G disks. 

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 21:56, Adrian Chadd wrote: 
> NFS locking definitely needs to be tested. Solaris x86 doesn't suck but
> its quite picky about its high-perf x86 hardware.

I'm sorry, Solaris x86 does suck terribly. Its kernel leaks like a Java
program and its basically unsupported by both Sun and the Unix
community. One of the greatest sources of pain in my life recently has
been the fact that gdb doesn't work right on Solaris/x86.

Ian