Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:21:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Dru Nelson <dnelson@redwoodsoft.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates Message-ID: <199902121921.LAA06904@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9902120539540.17711-100000@feral-gw>
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:> What were the requirements for NASA/Ames?
:>
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:Replacement for the Convex (chuck && scott) machines, i.e., > 900GB
:reliable standard filesystem that you could then put RASH hooks into
:later. Whether these would be via locally attached disk or via a HIPPI
:network block device ('raw frame' driver) was/in indeterminate.
:
:It's not clear whether anything but NetBSD will be used for these
:machines, but there had been so many hardware related and also possible
:FFS related problems with the MSS3 project that I was allowed to go off
:and search for possible alternatives. Digital Unix/ADVFS as is Solaris/UFS
:and Solaris/SAMFS (LSC's produce) are also candidates, but those are less
:attractive because they're not open source solutions. At any rate, at the
:time I was doing this, I could not demonstrate FreeBSD/FFS to be a
:superior combo than NetBSD/FFS, hence the term 'loss'.
:
:-matt
If you need absolute reliability, I would seriously consider a NetApp.
I'd choose that over everything - solaris, irix, *bsd, linux, NT. You
name it.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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