> I see 4.0 is coming out, and yet, no hardware raid support, no fixes for > raidframe, > and still no SMP support, for sparc64 on Ultrasparc II machines. > > I'm using only 1 processor out of 4, and 4 hard drives out of 30 because I > can't hardware raid > my enterprise fiberchannel array, I can't hardware raid the majority of the > drives in my > E450, and because raidframe is so old and buggy, I can't raid5 any of it, > and am left > mirroring my 2 boot drives together, and 2 data drives together. > > This is a $125,000 machine 5 years ago, and I treat it no better than some > crappy i686 box > because security is my primary issue. If I went with another OS, I could > get a lot of the > functionality I want, but what good is it, if some 12 y/o kid in pakistan > can hack my box. > > I just can't see why SMP and hardware raid aren't supported on sparc64/II. > > Thanks at least for a very secure OS. I've been online now for 6 months on > this E450 with > no hacks.
We welcome code submissions. I think you have no idea at all how much effort it takes to support all the things we do, and you are just being rude.
