>On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:
>> Define older hardware. On my Sparc 10 and 20 I run Solaris 2.6 as it's the
>> last version to support some of the hardware I use. Though I've been
>
>Ah, you're using newer hardware. ;-) I was referring to a Sun 4/110
>running Solaris 2.4... as well as a 3/60 that was running SunOS 4.1.1.
What can I say, the oldest Sun hardware I've been able to get my hands on
is a Sparc 2. Though in all honestly I'm not really interested in running
UNIX on anything older, except getting it running on one of my PDP-11's
(though that's a very low priority).
>Both my SparcServer 1000 and my Ultra are running Solaris 8. Now, I'm
Make me sick, what kind of Ultra? I've really been wanting one, but
haven't found one with the right bang for the buck. Though I could almost
justify the new Sunblade 100!
>and use them for anything. The ones running Solaris 8 are much more
>likely to necessitate a manual fsck than my other machines for some
>reason; not sure why. Any ideas?
I'm afriad not, I've only used Solaris 7 on a x86 box, and haven't tried
Solaris 8 at all. Even at work we're still running Solaris 2.6.
>> threatening to move the Sparc 20 to Solaris 8 when I upgrade its
>>>>harddrives.
>
>Out of curiosity, what hard drives are you using that Solaris 8
>doesn't support? Will it support most older 5-1/4" SCSI hard drives
>and SMD drives, or the Emulex SCSI <-> ESDI apater?
Actually you misunderstood me there (and I wasn't clear enough). It's not
the drives, it's the S-Bus boards. I've got Sun 100Mbit and PTI 430 SCSI
cards that aren't supported beyond Solaris 2.6. However, the only board in
the Sparc 20 that isn't is the PTI 430, and I recently got a couple Sun
SCSI boards I can replace it with. So when I pull out the 2 2GB 7200
Drives with 2 9GB 7200 drives I'll see how it runs with Solaris 8.
>> Linux box and has a lot of disk space hanging off of it (about 70GB), as
>> that's some serious fsck time! Personally if a system has an option to shut
>> it down gracefully, that's what I do, no matter the OS.
>
>It's bad enough to have to wait for a check through 768MB of RAM,
>without having to endure a manual fsck through quite a few gigabytes
>of disk space.
Try anywhere from 400GB - 1.2TB of diskspace after a power outage, and
that's per server!
>Wow, you must really trust Linux! Your experiences with it are
>probably different than mine, but I don't have enough faith in it,
Well, I've been running it since January '92, however, I don't really trust
it for more than a Workstation.
>based upon prior experiences with RedHat Linux. Based upon those
>experiences, RedHat Linux appeared to have a less stable filesystem
>than FreeBSD, and was more prone to need lots of help with a manual
>fsck when power was lost, or when the machine crashed while running,
>which wasn't uncommon---particularly if Netscape was being used on it.
>What flavor of Linux are you using?
I ran Red Hat for a few years, but switched to Mandrake a few months ago.
I've never had real problems with the filesystem stability, however, that
might also have something to do with the way that I use it. I rarely keep
my Linux boxes up for more than a few days at a time, normally no more than
a few hours in fact. Though my current Linux workstation at home has the
disturbing habit of crashing after being up for 2-3 days.
Hmmm, actually come to think of it, I've got a Linux Workstation at work
now (finally had to give up the antique RS6000), and it's been up for
nearly two months now. It's also running a modified RedHat 6.2 release.
BTW, I've never had Netscrape cause a UNIX system to crash. Though it's
caused my Mac to crash plenty of times.
Zane
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Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 01:44:15 BST