Thus spoke H. Peter Anvin on 24-Feb-99 :
>> On the other hand the AIX automounter allows you to do exactly what I want
>> via shared mounts
>
> AIX doing it is, if anything, a good reason *NOT* to...
>
Is that an argument or an opinion? I see that most of you guys out there come
from the SUN world. I have no experience with Solaris as sys admin, just as
user but that was a devastating one. The server chrashed once a week, the NFS
went down once a day in the institution, I worked as a postdoc in the US. I
ended up doing my calculations on a Pentium 120 MHZ laptop, since a) the laptop
had the same speed for my calculations as the SUN server and under LINUX was
more reliable :) - it has a nice suspend button, so I do not have to reboot :)
Before I worked with DEC Ultrix. This OS had some design flaws for running
large applications and my workstation crashed regularly while opening xterms.
Back home I was sysadm for a AIX cluster. It was a pain in the butt to
admistrate, no user friendlyness, but stability, stability, stability. Uptimes
of 3-4 months were normal and reboots usually only for system upgrades and
buxfixes neccesary. And our workstations were always 2-3 times faster then
SUN�s of other physics departments, I also had a chance to run my code on.
>From me stability and computational speed is important, since some of my
programs use to run for a week.
Excuse my personal remarks, but different people have different experiences and
different needs. That makes live fun :)
Frithjof
"If you see someone without a smile, give him one of yours"
Frithjof Anders
Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik
Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
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