Re: Opinions XFS

2007-08-04 Thread George N. White III
ail, file and web serving. (x86_64 etch) Let us know how you feel once you have experienced a few hardware failures. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opinions XFS

2007-08-07 Thread George N. White III
inux and have dropped Irix but still use XFS, I think it pretty likely that they have done a good job of ensuring that Linux's XFS is up to snuff. Linux runs on a very wide range of hardware. What you say is true for the sort of hardware SGI is using, but can't be used to predict how

Re: Hard disk dying?

2007-08-07 Thread George N. White III
a time. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-11 Thread George N. White III
bably a better environment for experimenting than LaTeX (as there is much less demand to support legacy documents). I expect experiences with ConTeXt will help in designing LaTeX interfaces. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: USB ports not responding

2007-09-11 Thread George N. White III
ask. If you know anything I would be happy if you could help or just point me to another location where I can find out some more. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Math Package to Solve Linear Equations?

2007-10-07 Thread George N. White III
excellent and it is very widely used. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: texlive no longer honours $TEXMFHOME?

2007-10-27 Thread George N. White III
nless your $HOMETEXMF is on a network server or you have lots of files there, the overhead of ls-R searches probably exceeds the cost of direct filesystem searches. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: HD problems

2008-02-29 Thread George N. White III
igned for laptop drives. If the drive seems to be working, then you have evidence for cable/power issues and for such an old system you probably don't want to put much effort into repairs. I have heard of people who connect old laptops to a desktop power supply -- the tricky bit is that many su

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread George N. White III
27;t really want to, but how much longer should I put up with a partial OS? I don't mind telling you I'm damned sick of it. If you don't want to be ignored, you could try a commercial distribution. Debian is mainly supported by the user community -- nobody gets fired for ig

Re: XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-22 Thread George N. White III
calls with long argument lists when handling errors under heavy I/O. What hardware and kernel are you using for XFS and what sort of I/O loads do you have? -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-27 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Andreas Grabner wrote: Am Dienstag, den 22.05.2007, 22:23 -0400 schrieb Greg Folkert: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:39 +, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: can anybody explain the following to me? It happens in full production use. Should

Re: XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-29 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Andreas Grabner wrote: Am Sonntag, den 27.05.2007, 20:22 + schrieb George N. White III: I'd want to do some serious testing before using XFS in your environment. Is there a reason you can't use ext3? No. I want to test it before using it at customer sit