Re[2]: [9fans] diskless boot of one terminal off kfs machine

[steve.simon@snellwilcox.com]

Mmm, the disks are scsi (segate baracuda's on
an Tekram (NCR) controller)

What was strange was the slow speed of the mkfs | mkext.
The machines are 400Mhz PII and a 350Mhz PII connected
by 10Mbps ether so perhaps its just a sign of my ancient kit.

Anyway it works, and I shall be trying it for real as
when I get my venti server and DSL connection going.

Anyone any opinions which scripts in in /bin/services I
can safely copy to /bin/alt.services to run on /alt.net
(the internet) - I want to be able to connect to my
cpu & fs servers over the net but not get hacked (if possible :-)

-Steve

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Subject:    Re: [9fans] diskless boot of one terminal off kfs machine
Author: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date:       04/02/03 23:14

> If any of the fossil developers is interested I was using an fs interleaved
> filesystem accross 3 fairly fast disks and got "disk: io=10021 at 8.779ms"
> I got about 25 of these in 3 hours of mkfs | mkext before giving up.
> The times increased slowly about 13ms but the counts stayed at 10010 +- 10.

I think those are normal.  Do you have DMA turned on?
cat /dev/sdC0/ctl and make sure that the dmactl number
is not zero.

Russ