[parisc-linux] framebuffer depth and other issues ...

[Grant Grundler]

Nahkola,
You asked alot of questions. I take a shot at one of them:

Nahkola Mikko wrote:
> And as an aside, how reliable is the disk stuff nowadays? Would it make 
> any sense to run a file server on Linux/hppa yet?

Yes. I'm running a linux http/ftp server inhouse on a B180 with 200GB disk.
It mirrors RH/SuSE/Mandrake and Debian for Cupertino site.
I have to get mrtg running again to collect stats.
Nightly updates and it's never crashed.

BTW, this box also serves as my regular desktop.

> I mean, something like 
> a stack of A3312As, software-RAID and NFS ... is it likely to work?

I don't do RAID or NFS. I mean this *is* a mirror.

> How 
> about performance, compared to HP-UX, for example? (yes, I'd expect HP-UX 
> to be somewhat better, but by how much?)

lmbench results are in the parisc-linux mail archive (lists.parisc-linux.org).
IO/FS stuff was comparable, linux context switching sucks.

grant