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#! rnews 1274 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve news.software.nntp:14924 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4252 comp.os.linux.advocacy:15900 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!snert!not-4-mail From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun/Solaris or Pentium/Linux for new server ? Date: 4 Aug 1995 08:38:29 +0200 Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3vsf95$52i@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> References: <3vlpgk$rdk@graphite.comco.com> <3vpg3g$q35@shell2.best.com> <3vq3if$jmp@dodgson.math.psu.edu> <3vrt40$74q@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: pilhuhn.de taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes: > I thought this is mostly do to the asynchronous updates of >directory metadata. That sounds a little too risky to run on a busy >news server... You can do that on a Sun via ioctl too. It runs on a big server of a german provider in fast mode and here on my own NetBSD box also. I saw no problems on both hosts. -- Heiko W.Rupp Gerwigstr.5 D-76131 Karlsruhe +49 721 9661524 ... ich denk noch "so 'n Arsch" ...