[OpenAFS] AMD clients
Steve Devine
sdevine@msu.edu
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:30:44 -0500
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Marcus Watts wrote:
> Steve Devine <sdevine@msu.edu> writes:
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>> We are considering buying a Dell AMD server.
>> Has anyone built a client on this yet? We would likely use Solaris 10
>> or RedHat.
>> I have yet to try a amd so I don't know what types of issues that might
>> pop up.
>> Thanks
>> /sd
>>
>
> Are you planning to make this a fileserver, an afs db server, or
> something else where it's actually just an afs client?
>
We actually will just run the afs client to support our version of
mfiles ( I think you have heard of this :-) )
/sd
> I've built a client cache manager for amd64. I didn't have any special
> issues with openafs, in fact I just used the debian openafs package to
> build it. I certainly had annoying hardware issues, but that was
> because my amd64 machine came with some sort of evil non-dfsg "host
> raid" card. You won't have that particular problem. I don't expect
> you'll have serious problems with any recent stable version of amd64
> linux + openafs. OpenAFS should work just as well with sunx86_510, but
> I have no personal experience to back that claim.
>
> I think the more interesting question will be support of RH vs. solaris
> 10 for dell and whatever I/O peripherals they provide, but that's not
> really an OpenAFS issue.
>
> You can also install a 32-bit-only OS on amd64. You'll sacrifice some
> speed so I don't know why you would do this, but this should work with
> openafs just like any other pentium 2 through 4 architecture machine.
>
> -Marcus
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Steve Devine
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Michigan State University
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Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical.
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Marcus Watts wrote:
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:32:17 -0500
We are considering buying a Dell AMD server.
Has anyone built a client on this yet? We would likely use Solaris 10
or RedHat.
I have yet to try a amd so I don't know what types of issues that might
pop up.
Thanks
/sd
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Are you planning to make this a fileserver, an afs db server, or
something else where it's actually just an afs client?
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We actually will just run the afs client to support our version of
mfiles ( I think you have heard of this <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>
:-) </span></span>)<br>
/sd<br>
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I've built a client cache manager for amd64. I didn't have any special
issues with openafs, in fact I just used the debian openafs package to
build it. I certainly had annoying hardware issues, but that was
because my amd64 machine came with some sort of evil non-dfsg "host
raid" card. You won't have that particular problem. I don't expect
you'll have serious problems with any recent stable version of amd64
linux + openafs. OpenAFS should work just as well with sunx86_510, but
I have no personal experience to back that claim.
I think the more interesting question will be support of RH vs. solaris
10 for dell and whatever I/O peripherals they provide, but that's not
really an OpenAFS issue.
You can also install a 32-bit-only OS on amd64. You'll sacrifice some
speed so I don't know why you would do this, but this should work with
openafs just like any other pentium 2 through 4 architecture machine.
-Marcus
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Steve Devine
Storage Systems
Academic Computing & Network Services
Michigan State University
506 Computer Center
East Lansing, MI 48824-1042
1-517-432-7327
Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra
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