[tech] Meito

[Leighton Haynes]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:22:32PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to reinstall Meito with Linux rather than Solaris. The disk
> performance is hideously bad, which makes it fairly worthless as a
> fileserver. I suspect it just doesn't know how to talk to the IDE
> chipset at a reasonable speed.
> 
> As far as I can tell, meito has the following functions:
>   * samba PDC
>   * serving DNS
>   * NFS exporting various things
>   * file storage
> 
> Anyone see any major reason not to reinstall?

Can you back up everything to make sure nothing is lost during the
reinstall, and can you provide me documentary evidence that the Linux
box will suck less? ("I think Linux is better" does not count :P)

Leighton...


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