[SunRescue] WTB RS/6000

[Ed Pate]

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I'm told that SUN and Veritas almost signed an agreement to integrate in
Solaris, until somebody pointed out how much money BOTH companies are making
selling them separately.  The Veritas products are one of SUN's highest
profit lines.

Ed

Reagen Ward wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Kevin Loch wrote:
>
> > The virtual volume manager
> > is a bit obtuse compared with Solaris, but
> > does offer some nice features.  The JFS filesystem
> > is very nice and allows you to expand the filesystem
> > sizes while they are still in use!  Apparently
> > no one at IBM though of the need to shrink filesystems
> > but I believe there are third pary apps for that.
>
> I find LVM to be much more friendly than Veritas, and it pleases me that
> vendors like IBM and HP appreciate the importance of INTEGRATING IT WITH
> THE OS, DAMMIT!
>
> I have the ability to shrink filesystems at work on our Suns and HPs,
> but they won't let me.  They're all afraid. :)
>
> Reagen
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