From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 12 11:21:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21940 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21935 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id LAA06904; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:21:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:21:23 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902121921.LAA06904@apollo.backplane.com> To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Dru Nelson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> What were the requirements for NASA/Ames? :> :> : :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message