* Chris Ruprecht <chrup_at_earthlink.net> on Thu, 16 May 2002
| The Apple Xserver has nothing which makes me want to get one. The drives
| are ATA, where I would only use UltraSCSI-160.
Bah. FCAL w/ 7200 RPM drives.
| RAID is advertised as 'software', I would only use hardware RAID.
I've used most of the big-name software RAID systems: Veritas & Sun's ODS,
IBM's LVM, SGI's LVM, HP's LVM, Linux Software RAID, DEC's LSM. They all
suck. Some suck less than others, and some suck less for some uses (like
stripingZ), but they all suck.
| It lets me connect to and from anywhere, well, so does my Linux box. The
| major advantage of the Motorola PPC processors, the AltiVec unit(s) is
| not supported by the OS or the applications,
AltiVec is nigh-useless for file servers, which barely touch the CPU anyway
since the disk and memory I/O are all DMA and handled by auxillary
controllers. And it is not all that useful for application servers. SMP
is the way to go there.
| the C compiler they use (GCC) doesn't optimize for AltiVec code.
Are you sure about that?
| MacOS X Server is not up to scratch as far as speed is concerned. [...]
Mac OS X Server has one absolutely fatal flaw, one missing feature that
will kill it for the high availability market: no journaling filesystem.
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