Tru64 (was: Re: MicroVAX 4000/VLC)

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Mon Feb 25 23:00:35 2002

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> On 2002.02.25 23:12 Doc wrote:
>
> > I've sort of been wondering, since we're on AXP anyway, is anybody
> > at all still running Tru64 or NT on Alpha?
> I am runing Tru64 5.1 on a PWS 500au.
>
> > Everyone I know who owns AXP runs either *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS,
> > including me. NetBSD flat screams on the LX164.
> If NetBSD gets
> 1) a cc(1) that generates as fast and optimal code as the Tru64 cc(1)

gcc keeps on getting better, so that might reasonably happen.

> 2) a file sytem that is that fast, flexible and reliable as AdvFS[1]

Have you tried using Linux's LVM? I havent yet (lacking the extra hdd's
to screw with mainly), but it's supposed to be fairly workable, and from
what I've heard, it'll do all that pretty effectively. Of course, it's
not quite a filesystem, but if combined with ext3, it would probably be a
pretty viable solution. Anyhow, why do you need to have just one
filesystem unless everything is just stuck in one directory? I just end
up mounting the physical drives and using symlinks to put data from
'large' directories onto extra filesystems. Anyhow, it's nicer to have
just one fs fail with only a portion of the data instead of the one fs
with everythign on it....

> [1] AdvFS is jornaled. A mounted FS can grow, shrink, be moved to an
> other disk, spreed across multiple disks to get more capacity...
> Snapshots / Clones can be taken... Remark: This are features of the FS,
> not an underlying LVM.

See note above about potential data loss from only having one filesystem.

> tschüß,
> Jochen

-- Pat
Received on Mon Feb 25 2002 - 23:00:35 GMT