Timo wrote:
From: m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: 18.2.'10, 18:55 Timo wrote:
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From: m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: 18.2.'10, 18:21
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Henry Ritzlmayr fedora-list@rc0.atwrote:
nate wrote:
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a) I'm talking about work;
..my systems at work.
b) My manager, my co-worker, and myself support nearly 200 servers, including 5 clusters.
Roughly the same numbers here - and that's the CentOS boxen only, not to mention xBSD, Solaris, and AIX machines.
Yeah, we have a few Solaris boxes, a mind-boggler SGI, and (I kid you not) some VMS systems.
IMHO one of the main reasons for running (Open)Solaris for most people (read: those w/o having to run Solaris due to historical reasons) do so because of ZFS.
XFS has different feature sets, strenghts and weaknesses, but the advantage of both XFS and ZFS is their total lack of fsck hassles, compared to extN.
Some people that we support "only" run jobs that go for 2-4 days, but there was the guy who was running a job that I had to wait until it was finished to reboot the NFS server with his home directory... and I waited ->two weeks<-.
So, where's exactly the connection to underlying file systems?
It was dumping large amounts of data into his home directory... which was NFS mounted from the server I needed to reboot.
Then there's the question of how we'd migrate.
Sorry, time for a real world check.
One of my most favorite jokes is to begin IT related discussions with 'in an ideal world'... ;)
*chuckle* <snip> mark