[2560] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: SIPB service needs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Nov 25 18:48:17 1996
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, star-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:31:56 EST."
<199611252331.AA10912@stan.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:48:00 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I'm curious why you think you have "achieved something resembling
> consensus" on the item of [upgrading discuss/NFS to a Sparc 5] when,
> as far as I can tell, it hasn't even been suggested on the
> rtfm-maintainers list, or shown up in the sipb zephyr logs.
See [1539] in charon-maint. I will freely admit that this was
probably the item that least resembled consensus, and I attempted to
be as noncommittal as possible when mentioning it.
> My opinion is that adding a Solaris server for discuss and nfs is a
> bad idea.
The reason why I put it on the want list (fairly far down) is that, as
jweiss mentioned in charon-maint [1482]:
1) ASO is planning on upgrading as many of our DEC servers as
we have time to get to this fiscal year
Basically, it will become increasingly difficult to support services
on DEC hardware as time goes on. It's not a performance or stability
issue (although Solaris 2.5.1 does support NFSv3, which might be
nice).
