Greetings, On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 16:40 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Dean Anderson > > > > I've used AFS since the 1980s. The OpenAFS Windows client is very > > stable, and uses a loopback adapter, which insulates the AFS client
> Although I know this is unrelated, I do have one parallel experience, which > I do allow to shape my current behavior and opinions: There was a time > where I installed some Ext3 plugin for windows, obviously to access external > Linux formatted disks. Everything was fine for ... I don't know ... 3 > months I guess. Then one day my system started blue-screening regularly > (once or twice a day) and I banged my head up and down figuring out where my > hardware failure was. As a last-ditch effort, I ghosted my system, > reinstalled windows, and it became stable again. Thus eliminating hardware > as the source of the problem. So then I went back to my ghost image, and > painstakingly removed everything, one by one. As you might have guessed, MS > released some software update, which suddenly made the Ext3 plugin unstable. > Cuz obviously that's a 3rd party add-on which is pretty deep down ... not > necessarily in kernel space, but certainly lower than the typical user app. And, this is yet another reason why I will _NEVER_ recommend using Windows software as a server in a production environment. Especially not if I'm serving other machines besides just Windows. But that's just me. -dkap _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
