> On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:10:14 +0200
> "Seth Mos" <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > At 12:17 5-6-2002 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >does anybody have experiencies with the Redhat installer from
> > >ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.1/installer/instal
> > >ler/i386/ Does anybody has tried that? It is supposed to be stable
> > >enough for everyday use?
> > >Thx,
> > >Florian
> >
> > I did test the kernel from this installer (2.4.18 Red Hat based) on a
> > medium sized ia32 box and it did well.
> >
> > It was a dual 1.4Ghz PIII and 2GB ram with a hardware raid 10.
> > I tried some local mongo.pl runs with a lot of processes and bonnie++
> > runs back to back for a day over NFS (gigabit ethernet).
> >
> > Not too stellar scores (hardware raid limit) but the machine survived
> > none the less. NFS performance was about 500Mbps but this was limited
> > by the desktop client machine.
> >
> > Don't forget to make your network buffers larger if you have gigabit
> > ethernet if you want some return on investment ;)
> > Otherwise it is just like having 100Mbit ethernet.
> >
> > I have not tested the installer part due to time shortage. I think
> > Eric did test this before releasing it. Eric you did test it by
> > upgrading did you :)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > --
> > Seth
> > It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.
> >
>
> As far as just the installer part goes I just finished upgrading 6
machines
> from RH7.1-XFS1.0.1 without a hitch. The only problems I had were with
things
> that would have occured with the installer from Red Hat as well related to
> the installer defaulting to ipchains while the systems were set up to use
> iptables.
Which bootloader you have used? The XFS website says that there might be
problems with GRUB.
Thx,
Florian
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