Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Miguel Filipe <miguel.filipe@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] For a 1.5TB server running Samba and NFS ONLY,what's the best kernel?
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:57:22
Message-Id: f058a9c304092808577a2d6238@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] For a 1.5TB server running Samba and NFS ONLY,what's the best kernel? by Christian Parpart
1 About the carelessly, imagine:
2 - Engeneering students that don't have any kind of computer
3 instruction, and that sees a kdm window asking for "Enter with
4 university acount and password", well .. the tipical luser reaction..
5 is:
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7 "reset button" :D
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9 and theres no poing in _removing_ the button... done that before...
10 the users pulled the plug instead :D
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12 thats the kind of "carelessly" used I was talking about...
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14 greets
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19 On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:18:10 +0200, Christian Parpart
20 <cparpart@×××××××××.net> wrote:
21 > On Thursday 23 September 2004 4:38 am, Miguel Filipe wrote:
22 > > My rule of thumb:
23 > > - its a production system -> use a FS that you are acostumed.. don't
24 > > try out something new
25 > > - its going to store huge/big files -> xfs
26 > > - its going to sture lots of small files (tipical unix system) -> reiserfs
27 > > - its going to be carelessly used (linux in a deskop system in a
28 > > university lab.. for public usage for instance) -> ext3
29 >
30 > *what* duo wanna tell me with "carelessly"? I assume you're just kidding.
31 >
32 > > About the filesystems,
33 > [snip]
34 >
35 > very readable, but plz don't let start yet another flame.
36 >
37 > Cheers,
38 > Christian Parpart.
39 >
40 > --
41 > 08:56:12 up 29 days, 20:35, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.22, 0.19
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50 Miguel Sousa Filipe