Nor do they mention the days required to rebuild a RieserFS system when it gets corrupted or the day plus to even get the data off before it crashed entirely. Nor do they mention how to backup the data so you can do a recovery in the event of a hardware failure.
Real world experience tells me that RiserFS is not ready for production on my servers. I had a 2TB server running the backend mail spool for our campus, it developed severe database corruption in the ReiserFS as a result of the big blackout last summer. It took 29+ hours to remove the files that were on the system to a new system. It was also taking forever to do any kind of backup on it (tar was the only available option).
The new system we migrated the data to eventually developed an even nastier problem where just reading certain files would kernel panic the entire system, leaving us with more than an hour of down time while the system came back up and checked the ReiserFS structures and raids.
We eventually migrated to a third system where we now use dozens of individual EXT3 file systems under LVM. We have regained the ability to do a full level 0 dump in under 4 hours compared to the 24 hrs it took to save less data on a ReiserFS (when it was working properly) if we could even get the backups to complete.
And yes, all three systems were in fact identical 2TB RaidZones running their RH7.1 based product so it is an apples to apples comparison between EXT3 and ReiserFS.
The Linux LVM system is a dream from a backup perspective, as long as you aren't running RH Enterprise Advanced 2.1 with a new kernel to support LVM.
I won't use ReiserFS for anything more important than/tmp until there is a dump system available for it. I also won't use RH unless absolutely required as the only possible solution that the vendor will even talk to us about. Otherwise it is strictly Debian Sarge which doesn't ever let me down.
He wasn't the person at the top of the power syndicate. In fact, he made his money with silly hair brained ideas to make life easier/ more affordable for the masses especially including building houses. The person at the top of the power syndicate is the one he was forced to sell his soul to in order to fund the last stage of the moon trip. Losing that final bit of control is what kept him out of space until his last days when he bribed some down and out rocket jockeys to drag him to the moon.
His story is actually spread across several books and short stories including oblique references in "To sail beyond the sunset" that refer to his business partner, George Armstrong.
As for the other reply to the parent, he was playing several ways and covering all his bases, he tried to option the air space of every country on the equator in order to ensure that no other single superpower country could stake a claim and refute commercial claims; yet at the same time he was seeding the idea that the moon belongs to everyone.
The below letter was received by me at 18:35 eastern. (Yes I am a unix sysadmin, but keeping an eye on the market is prudent).
March 24, 2004
To Our Partners:
The European Commission today announced a decision against Microsoft in its five-year investigation of the company. I am writing to provide you with more information on the process that has led to this point and how we see it going forward.
First, it is important to emphasize that, as Commissioner Monti has noted, throughout this long investigation Microsoft has worked constructively with the Commission and has sought to address all of the concerns relating to the case. As this case moves forward, Microsoft will respect and fully comply with European law, we will continue our investment in developing great technologies, and we will continue to deliver our innovation to our partners and customers.
We were indeed able to reach agreement on all of the issues in the current case. In doing so, Microsoft made far-reaching and very substantial concessions on both the interoperability and media playback technology sides of the case. We volunteered a set of obligations that would have been unprecedented in the technology industry or elsewhere. Our settlement offer, which applied worldwide on both sides of the case, would have resulted in over 1 billion competitor media players being distributed in the next 3 years.
However, the Commission also required Microsoft to agree to a single formula that would define how all questions concerning future innovation and technology integration beyond the scope of the current case should be dealt with. As a company that has been at the leading edge of the last 20 years of technology innovation and development, we do not believe that it is possible or desirable to design a single rule that would apply to all innovation and technology integration questions that may arise in the future.
Innovating to the benefit of partners and customers has been the driving vision of Microsoft--and the basis of its partner philosophy--since it started in 1975. Our understanding of the needs of European partners and customers goes back to the time when the company set up its first European operations 22 years ago in 1982. Many of the innovations over that time have focused on language support, usability and adding features that improve the user experience with their PC from the moment they take it out of the box. And we seek to do this at a fair price by taking all our new technologies to a mass market.
In many ways these additional technologies are core to user experience and to the usefulness of the product for partners and customers. According to our research, fully 80 percent of our European customers believe that Windows Media Player should be included with Windows.
Computers have changed the way we live and work in the past two decades and Microsoft is proud to have been part of that revolution. It is unfortunate that the European Commission chose to take this route, but we also recognize and thank the Commission for the professional and co-operative fashion in which they have approached this case.
As we move forward through this process, we will remain focused on collaborating with our partners and supporting product innovation to benefit Microsoft customers. We will support European governments on the pressing issues that face us all: computer security, spam, education and IT skills training. And we will help increasing Europe's competitiveness in the technology field, creating an information society and making sure that the online environment in which that society will thrive is safe for everyone.
We will keep you informed of developments as the process moves forward.
Yours sincerely,
Allison Watson Vice President, Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group
See our press release for more information. http://go.mic
It doesn't take a million dollars to play with a S/390, it doesn't even take $100k. Chances are there are dozens sitting out in system recyclers inventory right now.
IBM had way back grafted a S/390 processor card into a PC Server 500. The S/390 card had full processor and seperate memory support. It emulated the mainframe connectivity via the underlying OS (usually OS2 as the host). An IBM web page talking about it is PC Server 500 System/390 technical overviewThe full search results at IBM.COM show 100 pages Search for PC Server 390
I checked eBAY and don't see any available now, so the best bet would be through the used IBM channels like the advertisers in TheProcessor
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Nor do they mention the days required to rebuild a RieserFS system when it gets corrupted or the day plus to even get the data off before it crashed entirely. Nor do they mention how to backup the data so you can do a recovery in the event of a hardware failure.
/tmp until there is a dump system available for it. I also won't use RH unless absolutely required as the only possible solution that the vendor will even talk to us about. Otherwise it is strictly Debian Sarge which doesn't ever let me down.
Real world experience tells me that RiserFS is not ready for production on my servers. I had a 2TB server running the backend mail spool for our campus, it developed severe database corruption in the ReiserFS as a result of the big blackout last summer. It took 29+ hours to remove the files that were on the system to a new system. It was also taking forever to do any kind of backup on it (tar was the only available option).
The new system we migrated the data to eventually developed an even nastier problem where just reading certain files would kernel panic the entire system, leaving us with more than an hour of down time while the system came back up and checked the ReiserFS structures and raids.
We eventually migrated to a third system where we now use dozens of individual EXT3 file systems under LVM. We have regained the ability to do a full level 0 dump in under 4 hours compared to the 24 hrs it took to save less data on a ReiserFS (when it was working properly) if we could even get the backups to complete.
And yes, all three systems were in fact identical 2TB RaidZones running their RH7.1 based product so it is an apples to apples comparison between EXT3 and ReiserFS.
The Linux LVM system is a dream from a backup perspective, as long as you aren't running RH Enterprise Advanced 2.1 with a new kernel to support LVM.
I won't use ReiserFS for anything more important than
Re: DD Harriman and the power syndicate...
He wasn't the person at the top of the power syndicate. In fact, he made his money with silly hair brained ideas to make life easier/ more affordable for the masses especially including building houses. The person at the top of the power syndicate is the one he was forced to sell his soul to in order to fund the last stage of the moon trip. Losing that final bit of control is what kept him out of space until his last days when he bribed some down and out rocket jockeys to drag him to the moon.
His story is actually spread across several books and short stories including oblique references in "To sail beyond the sunset" that refer to his business partner, George Armstrong.
As for the other reply to the parent, he was playing several ways and covering all his bases, he tried to option the air space of every country on the equator in order to ensure that no other single superpower country could stake a claim and refute commercial claims; yet at the same time he was seeding the idea that the moon belongs to everyone.
The below letter was received by me at 18:35 eastern. (Yes I am a unix sysadmin, but keeping an eye on the market is prudent).
March 24, 2004
To Our Partners:
The European Commission today announced a decision against Microsoft in its
five-year investigation of the company. I am writing to provide you with more
information on the process that has led to this point and how we see it going
forward.
First, it is important to emphasize that, as Commissioner Monti has noted,
throughout this long investigation Microsoft has worked constructively with the
Commission and has sought to address all of the concerns relating to the case. As
this case moves forward, Microsoft will respect and fully comply with European law,
we will continue our investment in developing great technologies, and we will
continue to deliver our innovation to our partners and customers.
We were indeed able to reach agreement on all of the issues in the current case. In
doing so, Microsoft made far-reaching and very substantial concessions on both the
interoperability and media playback technology sides of the case. We volunteered a
set of obligations that would have been unprecedented in the technology industry or
elsewhere. Our settlement offer, which applied worldwide on both sides of the case,
would have resulted in over 1 billion competitor media players being distributed in
the next 3 years.
However, the Commission also required Microsoft to agree to a single formula that
would define how all questions concerning future innovation and technology
integration beyond the scope of the current case should be dealt with. As a company
that has been at the leading edge of the last 20 years of technology innovation and
development, we do not believe that it is possible or desirable to design a single
rule that would apply to all innovation and technology integration questions that
may arise in the future.
Innovating to the benefit of partners and customers has been the driving vision of
Microsoft--and the basis of its partner philosophy--since it started in 1975. Our
understanding of the needs of European partners and customers goes back to the time
when the company set up its first European operations 22 years ago in 1982. Many of
the innovations over that time have focused on language support, usability and
adding features that improve the user experience with their PC from the moment they
take it out of the box. And we seek to do this at a fair price by taking all our new
technologies to a mass market.
In many ways these additional technologies are core to user experience and to the
usefulness of the product for partners and customers. According to our research,
fully 80 percent of our European customers believe that Windows Media Player should
be included with Windows.
Computers have changed the way we live and work in the past two decades and
Microsoft is proud to have been part of that revolution. It is unfortunate that the
European Commission chose to take this route, but we also recognize and thank the
Commission for the professional and co-operative fashion in which they have
approached this case.
As we move forward through this process, we will remain focused on collaborating
with our partners and supporting product innovation to benefit Microsoft customers.
We will support European governments on the pressing issues that face us all:
computer security, spam, education and IT skills training. And we will help
increasing Europe's competitiveness in the technology field, creating an information
society and making sure that the online environment in which that society will
thrive is safe for everyone.
We will keep you informed of developments as the process moves forward.
Yours sincerely,
Allison Watson
Vice President, Worldwide Partner Sales and Marketing Group
See our press release for more information.
http://go.mic
It doesn't take a million dollars to play with a S/390, it doesn't even take $100k. Chances are there are dozens sitting out in system recyclers inventory right now.
IBM had way back grafted a S/390 processor card into a PC Server 500. The S/390 card had full processor and seperate memory support. It emulated the mainframe connectivity via the underlying OS (usually OS2 as the host). An IBM web page talking about it is PC Server 500 System/390 technical overviewThe full search results at IBM.COM show 100 pages Search for PC Server 390
I checked eBAY and don't see any available now, so the best bet would be through the used IBM channels like the advertisers in TheProcessor