On Wednesday 07 February 2001 13:37, you wrote:
> --- "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 02.06 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > Eugenio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Not only that, but XFS is a proven (in my opinion the
> > > > best) enterprise class file system. It brings
> > > > performance, scalability, security, QoS features,
> > > > uptime, and more to Linux. I don't think reiserfs and
> > > > XFS can be put in the same category. Just to start,
> > > > XFS is a port of a proven product, while reiserfs is a
> > > > *relatively* new and unproven product.
> > >
> > > It's rather sad to see that SGI has written a patch to Anaconda to
> > > support XFS, and they don't care about our installer :-(..
> >
> > They distribute RedHat for their intel machines, don't be surprised not
> > to care about anything more (althoug I have heard something about
> > TurbuLinux...)
>
> They decided not to provide a SGI distro, and instead go with an existent
> distro, and provide any SGI specific enhancements in a separate software
> package called SGI Pro Pack which works with RH, SUSE, TurboLinux, and
> Debian (why not Mandrake also? Ask MandrakeSoft). Check:
>
> http://www.sgi.com/software/linux/propack/tech_info.html
> http://www.sgi.com/software/linux/propack/faq.html
>
> Yes, they ship with RH, NT or No OS, but they will support any distro that
> complies with their basic requirements. They have worked with SUSE on
> high-availability:
>
> http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2000/february/suse.html
> http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2000/august/suse.html
>
> they even partnered with a competing hardware vendor, VA/Linux to help the
> Debian cause:
>
> http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/oct/sgi_oreilly.html
>
> so don't tell me they don't play nice with others (as long as those others
> are *willing*).
If you care to submit a story to mandrakeforum about this, I will make sure
it is published. I think you are possibly overestimating our available time
to pursue opportunities, but mandrakeforum is where you can make your case
for one choice over many others.
FYI, Mandrake 7.2 installed but would not boot on those SGI servers. It had
to do with a conflict of bigmem and reiserfs for the kernel. One company did
install Mandrake on SGI servers after cutting memory back to 1Gb, then
recompiling the kernel and reinstalling the extra memory. It worked.
Still, XFS needs to be described by someone competent to do so (like you) in
terms of _benefits_ rather than features on a forum that reaches those who
control the resources available. For the developers here, they are trying to
remember that the objective is to drain the swamp while up to their eyeballs
in alligators.
Civileme
