Hi all - I've been running solaris 10 as my backuppc server for quite a while now.
It mostly has worked fine. However, recently, I have frequently been bitten by solaris UFS filesystem bugs; the filesystem becomes corrupted for no good reason. I'd blame my hardware if i hadn't had similar experiences several years ago (on solaris) with an application that was written to use flat files as a "database". the filesystem just didn't like lots and lots of small files and the system panicked every few weeks, and fsck took FOREVER. I'm guessing it doesn't like lots of hard links, either, and my fscks have taken over two days (admittedly, i am using slow disks). I'm converting my system to run on linux as i write this. Anyway, just a word of warning. I wouldn't be surprised if nobody else had ever run this on Solaris, and I'd like nobody else to run into the problems I have. ps - converting to use ZFS would likely fix this set of problems, but i'm nervous that it would introduce more, ZFS is just not mature yet. danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
