On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:56:28PM -0400, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
> In the immortal words of John White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > However, I question the decision to use Solaris x86. I'm not aware
> > of any advantage there is over something like Linux or xBSD.
>
> Three words: journalling file system.
>
> Four more words: integrated logical volume manager.
>
> Solstice DiskSuite may not be a best-of-breed product in either of
> those categories, but it's there, it's basically stable, it's
> documented, and as of Solaris 7 it's part of the base distribution.
Solaris 7 definitely doesn't come with DiskSuite as part of the
base distribution. I know that I certainly don't have it.
Solaris 7 does come with a FS that journals metadata, but no one's
ever benchmarked it's performance with a large todo for the list.
John
