Re: XFS: SGI or Linux

[Maurice Volaski <mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It depends on how much demand you put on that server.  You can get a
> machine from SGI that can do amazing amount of processing and file serving
> - far beyond that of x86 hardware.  But if you only have 20-80 (or so -

Thanks for your comments. Performance hadn't crossed my mind: my 
concern is stability and the apparent difficulty in migrating toward 
more stability on a production server. It seems that Linux is still 
very fragile for this purpose.
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University