From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Nahkola Mikko Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] framebuffer depth and other issues ... In-Reply-To: Message from Nahkola Mikko of "Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:25:52 +0200." <20021028112551.GR15137@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> References: <20021028112551.GR15137@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:49:34 -0700 From: Grant Grundler Message-Id: <20021029004934.DFB5E4829@dsl2.external.hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Nahkola, You asked alot of questions. I take a shot at one of them: Nahkola Mikko wrote: > And as an aside, how reliable is the disk stuff nowadays? Would it make > any sense to run a file server on Linux/hppa yet? Yes. I'm running a linux http/ftp server inhouse on a B180 with 200GB disk. It mirrors RH/SuSE/Mandrake and Debian for Cupertino site. I have to get mrtg running again to collect stats. Nightly updates and it's never crashed. BTW, this box also serves as my regular desktop. > I mean, something like > a stack of A3312As, software-RAID and NFS ... is it likely to work? I don't do RAID or NFS. I mean this *is* a mirror. > How > about performance, compared to HP-UX, for example? (yes, I'd expect HP-UX > to be somewhat better, but by how much?) lmbench results are in the parisc-linux mail archive (lists.parisc-linux.org). IO/FS stuff was comparable, linux context switching sucks. grant