Re: [OpenAFS] AMD clients

[Steve Devine]

Marcus Watts wrote: Steve Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Steve Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OpenAFS-Info <openafs-info@openafs.org> Subject: [OpenAFS] AMD clients Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: <https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:32:17 -0500 We are considering buying a Dell AMD server. Has anyone built a client on this yet? We would likely use Solaris 10 or RedHat. I have yet to try a amd so I don't know what types of issues that might pop up. Thanks /sd Are you planning to make this a fileserver, an afs db server, or something else where it's actually just an afs client? We actually will just run the afs client to support our version of mfiles ( I think you have heard of this :-) ) /sd I've built a client cache manager for amd64. I didn't have any special issues with openafs, in fact I just used the debian openafs package to build it. I certainly had annoying hardware issues, but that was because my amd64 machine came with some sort of evil non-dfsg "host raid" card. You won't have that particular problem. I don't expect you'll have serious problems with any recent stable version of amd64 linux + openafs. OpenAFS should work just as well with sunx86_510, but I have no personal experience to back that claim. I think the more interesting question will be support of RH vs. solaris 10 for dell and whatever I/O peripherals they provide, but that's not really an OpenAFS issue. You can also install a 32-bit-only OS on amd64. You'll sacrifice some speed so I don't know why you would do this, but this should work with openafs just like any other pentium 2 through 4 architecture machine. -Marcus _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- Steve Devine Storage Systems Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University 506 Computer Center East Lansing, MI 48824-1042 1-517-432-7327 Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical. - Yogi Berra