[ale] AlphaLinux site

[Jim Kinney]

I was wondering if the post crash recovery could be sped up by only
mounting the needed boot, /, /bin sections automatically. This will speed
up getting the system back online. Then after the system is running, bring
the other sections back up in a defined priority order. By waiting to fsck
a mount until the previous mount is complete, instead of parallelizing,
this should bring the partition online quicker is the partitions are on
the same hard disk. If they are each on seperate drives, this won't do
anything useful at all.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:

> Vernard Martin writes:
>  > > I have to agree.  Unless you want to run linux for linux's sake, DU
>  > > is a great, great unix.  We run all of MindSpring on it and love it,
>  > > and we're a company filled with linux bigots.
>  > 
>  > However, Digitual Unix is expensive even as the commercial unix offerings go.
>  > Usually close to $1500. Since Compaq released the fortran compiler for linux
>  > and the optimized math libraries as well, alphalinux has become a very nice
>  > alternative.
>  > 
>  > V
> 
> Yeah, but Linux tends to lag behind in production environments... In
> the 2.2 release, it doesn't crash often, but it does crash, and when
> it does, it takes 20-30 minutes to check all of the filesystems (we
> have about 20GB of storage).  Without 2.2, an SMP box is effectively
> no faster than a uniprocessor (I'm talking about Intel Linux here)
> 
> I know that doesn't sound like much on the face of it, but when
> everyone in the office is milling around waiting for the server to
> come back up, it kinda blows.  Oh man! We need a filesystem with log
> based recovery!
> 
> Of course, I have some not so nice things to say about older releases
> of Digital Unix too...  I have lost a lot of sleep while recovering
> corrupt AdvFS filesystems!
> 
> -Eric.
>