On which filesystem? Were you using Linux EXT3 ..? One thing I'd like to try BTW is the new (to Solaris 8) "snap" feature for backup of a live UFS. I'm not sure that anyone has attempted to emulate that sort of thing yet on a journalling Linux filesystem. Basically it uses the journalling features of UFS to keep two effective journals running at once (or so I'm told), and the "snap" mount can just be deleted when you are finished with it. Though it apparently makes the system run slower when you are doing things.
Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Craige McWhirter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2001 0:50 > To: SLUG > Subject: RE: [SLUG] Solaris OS ... > It has been my experience and YMMV but Solaris is not too great a file > server, on SPARC hardware when compared to Linux on SPARC hardware. > Solaris is an excellent high-end application / database server but is > well out performed at the file sharing level. > > My assumption on the performance difference I've found is simply that > Linux kernels are more tuned to file sharing at a workgroup / > enterprise level than the Solaris kernel is. ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
