On 01/08/2010 01:58 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for >> online high density storage. > I wonder how much that would change with a bbu NVRAM card for an > external journal for ext4 and the disks on md. Unless one cannot add a > bbu NVRAM card... Good question, they are after all ( the Sun 45xx's ) just opteron box's with a mostly standard build. Finding a CentOS compatible ( drivers pre-included, and not crap like cciss ) would not be too hard. Who wants to offer up a machine to test on :) -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc