Re: My first question on Debian

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

mtsouk@freemail.gr writes:

>> > Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc, simply
>> > remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a single
>> > reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect.
>>
>> Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reason. I have a couple
>> of old Sun workstations at work, and I installed Debian on them.
>>
>> Also does Solaris provide this on Intel hardware!? I really don't
>> think so. If any of the hard disks fail on my intel computers I just
>> replace it with a cheap IDE disk. The SCSI disks in my sun computers
>> are probably worth more than the rest of the old computers themselves.
>>
>> Bijan
>
> I don't think that Solaris is so slow on x86.
> And yes, there is Solaris for Intel hardware.

I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to
hot-swap IDE hard disks.

Bijan