[rescue] Happy New Year! RIP, Sun/Solaris...

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:54:30AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> No, I think is more like "USB still sucks. Take the drive out of the 
> enclosure and place it on a real SATA controller."  I'm not sure that 
> NFS is much better now than 5 years ago, but I (work) never hit problems 
> until we had around 150-200 clients beating up a single NFS server 
> (we've now passed 4800 clients on our current NFS home directory 
> servers).  For most people lacking gargantuan scaling requirements, it 
> works fine.

USB on linux certainly sucks at least.

The leading cause of reboots on my home Linux workstation is from the
USB stack crashing in the kernel while reading SD cards.