On 10/9/06, Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:59:29PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > 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.
Heh. I've actually got an E450 at home myself that hasn't been setup yet.
It's got quad processors, a couple of gigs of RAM and one or two of the
disk expansion boards (with Symbios 2201, 2202 or 2204 cards).
Do many people have these things? I'm just wondering how much help I
could be to the project if I ran OpenBSD on the thing versus Solaris 10.
I have one at work that was retired in 2002. I've never had a chance
to install OpenBSD on it, it's quad processor but probably doesn't
have a RAID controller. I haven't even had a chance to fire it up in
years.
Greg
