>How many boxes are you currently maintaining?
Just three Gentoo servers, a few windows 2003 servers, and a lot of Windows and
Gentoo workstations. Our department has several additional Gentoo servers
managed by other staff, and across campus there are numerous larger departments
with a lot of Gentoo workstations and servers. I probably shouldn't say which
ones for security reasons, but we have had numerous departments on campus move
completely from FreeBSD and/or other Linux distributions to Gentoo. I notice
there's a lot of rivalry and distribution loyalty with Linux now, and a lot of
people really dislike Gentoo, but my point is just that it has worked really
well for us.
I don't manage a lot of Gentoo servers, and they are all running only a few
services, but I can say from the workstation side, that managing more machines
does not result in a linear increase in workload. We've always had a very
diverse infrastructure of Windows, Netware, various Linux/Unix servers and
managed them more or less individually. As we've consolidated and come up with
more centralized ways of managing our machines, it's all gotten a lot easier,
but especially the management of the Gentoo machines.
Vern
-----Original Message-----
From: Net Llama! [mailto:netllama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tue 5/3/2005 11:45 AM
To: Wilkins, Vern
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Recommend XFS enabled Linux Distribution
How many boxes are you currently maintaining?
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Wilkins, Vern wrote:
> I use Gentoo exclusively. It's definitely not for everyone, but I've used at
> least a dozen distributions pretty heavily and have phased out using anything
> else over the last few years. Not so much fun to install and you aren't
> going to get commercial support like with RedHat, Suse, etc, but much easier
> to maintain in the long run.
>
> Vern
> Senior Technology Specialist
> Indiana University Libraries
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-xfs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of zwlu@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue 5/3/2005 11:07 AM
> To: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:
> Subject: Recommend XFS enabled Linux Distribution
> Hi XFS gurus,
>
> I am building a Linux based File server used mainly as user home directories.
> These are mainly students who conduct research in computer graphics,
> data analysis. Here are my hardware:
>
> DELL Poweredge 2850 server with Apple Xserve Raid (~ 1.8 TB) with fibre
> connection between the two.
>
> I have installed RHEL4 (x86_64) and enabled XFS (by consulting
> at the archive here). XFS appears to work okay, but I have not
> tested the system heavily yet. I am a little bit of uncomfortable with the
> fact that XFS is not officially supported on RHEL4. RHEL4 will stay on the
> 2.6.9 kernel for as long as they can, while the XFS patches will not make into
> the Redhat kernel source there.
>
> I am wondering what other people on this list is using currently. SUSE?
> I also wonder if the Veritas Netbackup will work the distribution, right now
> we are using Netbackup Data Center 4.5MP8 here.
>
> Thank you very much for share your thoughts.
>
>
>
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