Re: [Condor-users] Condor for Solaris 10?

["Philip Papadopoulos" <philip.papadopoulos@xxxxxxxxx>]

the suggestion to run linux instead of solaris is myopic.  zfs under
solaris is an exceptionally nice file system and these are file
servers (48TB).

-P

On 4/2/08, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 14:50:25 Steve Barnet wrote:
> > Hi Steffen,
> >
> > Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been suggested to purchase one (or more) Sun X4500 as checkpoint
> > > servers, but obviously there's no support for Solaris 10 (and Solaris
> > > support only for the SPARC platform)... Are there intentions to provide
> a
> > > checkpoint server for Solaris 10_x86 ?
> >
> > It looks as though those machines should run Linux. Sun's official party
> > line on linux is usually Redhat and SuSE, but as far as I've been able
> > to tell, they're not usually doing anything so funky that other distros
> > won't work. So unless there's a particular reason to run Solaris it
> > seems like you should be able to drop Linux on these and be on your way.
>
> We're running condor on fedora on X4100 and X4200. With 4500 you may have a
> problem with SATA controller -- dunno if the driver's open-source and
> included in "free" distros -- but it's downloadable from Sun's website.
>
> Dimitri
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> Dimitri Maziuk
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> BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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