[rescue] advice on rescuing an e10k

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Oct 24 15:06:37 CDT 2006


On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:22:15 +0100
Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:12:47 -0500 (CDT), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Andrew Gaylard wrote:
> > 
> > > Is Solaris really that much faster on this hardware? And what do
> > > you mean by "maximum use of the hardware" and "scalability"?
> > 
> > Well, first off, Linux doesn't support that hardware.
> 
> Which of course is a reason (for a certain kind of person) for getting
> Linux onto such a system ... not only is it somewhat useful in itself,
> but is quite often useful in throwing up new problems with Linux that
> haven't been noticed on other large systems than Linux runs on.

Something else to think about is that Johathan's (and other's)
information on Linux is quite outdated.

Linux has not been PC-centric for almost 3 years now.



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