Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 07:08, John Richard Smith wrote:So it's the way the software is constructed and written that makes the real difference ?
yes, I guess so.After all many server systems run on linux software.It cannot all beHere's a "for instance" for ya. Now, remember that linux and unix are
due to money. I just wondered how much file systems had to do with this, because
for instance , while my w2k on ntfs runs a whole lot more stable than W98 on vfat
neither are as stable as any linux file system, even good old ext2. Maybe I'm becoming
a might prejudiced but that is how it seems to me. I just wondered whether the same
might also hold true in regard to commercial server systems, that's all.
John
basically the same - so's not to cloud the air:
HP server runing HPUX (HP Unix) - server has 6 RAID arrays with 5 drives
per array @ 9gb per drive. Being that permissions are set by the unix
filesystem, it wasn't a matter whether the "client" workstations were
NTFS, FAT, VFAT, HPFS or Mac. This was (maybe still is) for the sole
purpose of being a file server (it was other things, but management
didn't know about that). From 1996 through to 2000, the only thing I
ever heard when sour was the occasional drive - and that was a matter of
yanking out one and slapping in a new one...beautiful machine it
was...and fast. Nary a problem.
This HPUX had 6 raid arrays each had 5 drives, making 30 total and whose
software was on the unix system , I mean there are numerous server systems I think.
As I say I know nothing, not having had the opportunity to learn, but the curious
side of my nature makes me want to enquire. I am guessing that these were largely
internal server systems with a fair share of external connections . Not simply 6 seperate
server systems connected to the net. Some bigtime organisation, or joint network
like a market traders system. Much of it internal on LANS etc etc. Hewlet packard
hardware with some flavour of unix software. It speaks for itself.
Then I walk into my doctors sergery, a large one with 10 gp's and note he is running
his paients records on some flavour of M$ NT terminals fitted out with some proprietary software custome made windowing system all linked together with what
I am guessing is a windblows internal server box of some sort.I didn't like to
ask him how reliable it was, as he felt proud of the modern setup he had got.
John
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