Thanks, I did look at unison, but it's not quite low level enough to make everything as transparent as it should be. It's been a while though, so perhaps things have improved and I should take another look.
I looked at GFS. It seems to be very good at what it does, but it's not what I'm after. What you've just described is a costly setup, and far more complicated than I need. I want two servers to be able to replicate each others filesystems, so that one can take over the others services. Perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree with DFS, maybe I'm really talking about file replication, but from what little I've read DFS and FRS are quite closely tied in Windows. Oh, and for your information, I'm not a Windows admin, but if you feel the need to throw insults to make yourself feel superior, you go ahead.
I've asked this question several times, but no-one has given me a decent answer. Where is DFS on Linux? There is no decent (by which I mean stable and usable) piece of software that will allow two servers to mirror their filesystems in the way that DFS will on Windows.
NFS and GFS suffer from single point of failure. Coda is too big and unstable. Likewise for OpenAFS. Intermezzo oopses the kernel.
Linux may be better as a server system in some circumstances, but it still has a way to go imho.
This isn't for optical network switches, this is for processor cores.
Last time I checked, network switches had processors in them. No doubt this technology will make it into consumer PCs in the future, but for now it's more likely to make it into specialized applications like network switching.
It's Serial ATA II which is 3 Gigabits/second. That's just the interface speed, I doubt we'll be seeing drives that fast on the desktop in the near future.
Probably not ever for your average mechanical spinning platter. When solid state drives become more common then it might be a different matter. I believe I read somewhere that a company would be bringing out a holographic based drive in the next 18 months. I can't remember the speed or capacity, but I would imagine both are greater than todays average disk drive.
Many large companies like to have commerical support for the tools they use.
But it's just a tool, like hundereds of others you may use at the command line. Whats the difference between this and ls, find, grep, awk, df, du, ps... need I go on? Is a commercial company going to pay for support for each command line tool its sysadmin uses? I don't think so somehow...
I say it's a "massive step forward" because there are literally MILLIONS of windows machines which are never updated, don't run any firewall software, and which are directly connected to broadband ISPs. The people running these boxes truthfully don't know what they're doing in these matters.
So if these machines are not updated, and the owners don't know what they're doing, what makes you think they'll install SP2?
Depends where in the UK you are of course, as with any other place. I have the same light pollution problems here in Cambridge, but if I go back to my parents place in Norfolk there's very little light and I can see much more.
From the reviews I've read I wouldn't buy it full stop. The sound quality is below par in comparison with other radios, and the menu structure is unusable with the low number of buttons. Since you appear to have one, perhaps you can add your thoughts on this?
I have more than enough problems to deal with without viruses taking up my time. I vote punch in the mouth. In fact, as far as I'm concerned they should hang him by his testicles.
This isn't what SF is supposed to be. SF is supposed to be intriquing, interesting, intellectually challenging. Cowboys and especially cows in space isn't...
Interesting. I have the exact opposite view. I found the entire series incredibly interesting and challenging. Mainly because it didn't follow the "pre-defined rules" of sci-fi. A lot of it made sense to me. People are going to need to eat, they're going to want cattle, so someone is going to have to move them.
Fair enough, you didn't like it. But I don't think your arguments hold water personally.
Me too.. and I just can't find what I want. All I need is a standard keybaord, without the numeric keypad. I want the cursor keys and pgup/pgdn etc exactly where they are on a normal board, I just don't need the 4 inches extra on the right that the keypad takes up. Anyone seen anything like this? Preferably available in the UK?
I wouldn't run unstable on a production server. I do run testing, but that requires careful monitoring, since security updates are not always as timely for unstable or testing. stable is by far the best to use on a server in terms ot stability and security, but it's so out of date it won't even install on most new hardware. This I believe was one of the main reasons that they've decided to go ahead with the release of sarge, despite the problems with non-free content. People like myself are getting frustrated at not having a usable stable platform. And I say all this as a long time fan of Debian.
I'm confused. If it's a shared disk setup, how can there not be a single point of failure? If your FC/iSCSI disk box goes down, where's your storage gone? Obviously I've missed something, so if anyone would care to explain it to me I'm all ears...
What I need is a simple mirroring system for two failover servers, without single point of failure. Nothing out there at the moment seems to be stable enough for this in production. It's very frustrating. DFS and FRS seem to work just fine under Windows, so why hasn't Linux got it?
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Thanks, I did look at unison, but it's not quite low level enough to make everything as transparent as it should be. It's been a while though, so perhaps things have improved and I should take another look.
I looked at GFS. It seems to be very good at what it does, but it's not what I'm after. What you've just described is a costly setup, and far more complicated than I need. I want two servers to be able to replicate each others filesystems, so that one can take over the others services. Perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree with DFS, maybe I'm really talking about file replication, but from what little I've read DFS and FRS are quite closely tied in Windows. Oh, and for your information, I'm not a Windows admin, but if you feel the need to throw insults to make yourself feel superior, you go ahead.
I've asked this question several times, but no-one has given me a decent answer. Where is DFS on Linux? There is no decent (by which I mean stable and usable) piece of software that will allow two servers to mirror their filesystems in the way that DFS will on Windows.
NFS and GFS suffer from single point of failure.
Coda is too big and unstable. Likewise for OpenAFS.
Intermezzo oopses the kernel.
Linux may be better as a server system in some circumstances, but it still has a way to go imho.
This isn't for optical network switches, this is for processor cores.
Last time I checked, network switches had processors in them. No doubt this technology will make it into consumer PCs in the future, but for now it's more likely to make it into specialized applications like network switching.
Call me back when they have lasers on sharks. Then I'll be impressed...
It's Serial ATA II which is 3 Gigabits/second. That's just the interface speed, I doubt we'll be seeing drives that fast on the desktop in the near future.
Probably not ever for your average mechanical spinning platter. When solid state drives become more common then it might be a different matter. I believe I read somewhere that a company would be bringing out a holographic based drive in the next 18 months. I can't remember the speed or capacity, but I would imagine both are greater than todays average disk drive.
Dead or alive is definately too far. Dead is just fine.
Precisely. Making support for a specific tool kind of pointless.
Many large companies like to have commerical support for the tools they use.
But it's just a tool, like hundereds of others you may use at the command line. Whats the difference between this and ls, find, grep, awk, df, du, ps... need I go on? Is a commercial company going to pay for support for each command line tool its sysadmin uses? I don't think so somehow...
I say it's a "massive step forward" because there are literally MILLIONS of windows machines which are never updated, don't run any firewall software, and which are directly connected to broadband ISPs. The people running these boxes truthfully don't know what they're doing in these matters.
So if these machines are not updated, and the owners don't know what they're doing, what makes you think they'll install SP2?
... since Apache is the most popular web server it must also be the most hacked, right? Nope, that's IIS
Where is the data you're basing this statement on? Seriously, I'd like to know.
Depends where in the UK you are of course, as with any other place. I have the same light pollution problems here in Cambridge, but if I go back to my parents place in Norfolk there's very little light and I can see much more.
From the reviews I've read I wouldn't buy it full stop. The sound quality is below par in comparison with other radios, and the menu structure is unusable with the low number of buttons. Since you appear to have one, perhaps you can add your thoughts on this?
Uh oh, this sounds familiar. I don't know about you all, but I hate being a test subject.
Well, it's a good job not everyone thinks that way, otherwise nothing would ever get tested. This don't just become magically stable you know.
It's not the bald zealots you need to worry about. It's the hairy ones that concern me ;)
I have more than enough problems to deal with without viruses taking up my time. I vote punch in the mouth. In fact, as far as I'm concerned they should hang him by his testicles.
This isn't what SF is supposed to be. SF is supposed to be intriquing, interesting, intellectually challenging. Cowboys and especially cows in space isn't...
Interesting. I have the exact opposite view. I found the entire series incredibly interesting and challenging. Mainly because it didn't follow the "pre-defined rules" of sci-fi. A lot of it made sense to me. People are going to need to eat, they're going to want cattle, so someone is going to have to move them.
Fair enough, you didn't like it. But I don't think your arguments hold water personally.
Me too.. and I just can't find what I want. All I need is a standard keybaord, without the numeric keypad. I want the cursor keys and pgup/pgdn etc exactly where they are on a normal board, I just don't need the 4 inches extra on the right that the keypad takes up. Anyone seen anything like this? Preferably available in the UK?
... or used in suppository form.
Ouch! The sooner they move to pinless chips the better!
I wouldn't run unstable on a production server. I do run testing, but that requires careful monitoring, since security updates are not always as timely for unstable or testing. stable is by far the best to use on a server in terms ot stability and security, but it's so out of date it won't even install on most new hardware. This I believe was one of the main reasons that they've decided to go ahead with the release of sarge, despite the problems with non-free content. People like myself are getting frustrated at not having a usable stable platform. And I say all this as a long time fan of Debian.
The AMD's can still run the 32 bit binaries. You'll just get the 64-bit goodness where available.
Sorry, misread it as can't hold a pint. Usual excuse, shitty day, not enough sleep etc.
So, how much *can* it hold? Inquiring minds want to know... ;-)
I'm confused. If it's a shared disk setup, how can there not be a single point of failure? If your FC/iSCSI disk box goes down, where's your storage gone? Obviously I've missed something, so if anyone would care to explain it to me I'm all ears...
What I need is a simple mirroring system for two failover servers, without single point of failure. Nothing out there at the moment seems to be stable enough for this in production. It's very frustrating. DFS and FRS seem to work just fine under Windows, so why hasn't Linux got it?
You haven't flushed your output ;-)