Re: [LUG] Business switched

["Adrian Midgley" <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:12:40 +0100, Simon Waters  
<simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I doubt it is RAID speeding up read access, untuned Samba beats Windows
> NT4 sharing by a handsome margin (with certain assumptions). My guess it
> is just Windows inefficiency.

I'm willing to believe that, of course <g>

> Did you test booting without the primary boot disk before deploying - as
> this is usually the killer on PC hardware, BIOSes and boot sectors being
> what they are.

It is a fairly simple system - with the RAID being for the core data only,  
and made between two partitions, one of which is half of the same SCSI  
disk that has the operating system on it including the boot bits.

I do have spaces for several more drives, should I want or need them, but  
I don't have a caddy for the third (SCSI 4GBytes) drive, and given the age  
of it I thought it was best withdrawn.

> Hmm, time to go IMAP I think.
I am of the same opinion, and for other reasons I might want to gain  
experience with the IMAP-enabled version of VPOP3, but there is something  
(or more than one thing) that I don't understand about IMAP on Linux, yet,  
so I'm not going to break the production system.

Meanwhile, in other news, NHS buys 5000 copies of SUN Java Desktop.
I have to regard that as A Very Good Thing, at least hopeful.
I shall say so when I am in London being a token professional presence at  
meetings with part of NPfIT.

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AKM
Homefield Surgery Heavitree Exeter 01392 214151

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