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No, all of our stand alone systems have IDE drives.  We just don't
do that much writing to the disks, only log traffic, and the UPS's
make sure the system doesn't get shut off in surprising ways.  Our
auth server has been up since Dec 1, which is when I took it down to
put a new kernel on it.  I'm not pretending that kfs is robust, just
that it is sufficient in this situation, i.e, as a pretty much read
only fs.  I do use it for weeks at a time on my laptop when travelling,
but I've never used it as a real production system.  It was originally
cloned from a much older version of our file server code and though
we fix bugs when we experience them, we don't work it hard enough to
experience many of them.

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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:50:17 0900

>  While kfs isn't
>the most robust software, it's stable enough for something with a limited

Isn't your kfs residing on scsi HDD but not IDE?

I remind now that I had no such trouble on kfs when I met this new release
first time.  I compiled fileserver, auth server kernel on the machine with 48MB
ram using kfs local filesystem.  Only difference between that and present 
notebook is that the notebook uses IDE disk, however, the machine last year 
used scsi (sd53c8xx) local disk.  I may be wrong though, because I didn't use 
kfs so efficiently at that time.

Kenji

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