Rack Mount Servers

[Andrew W. Gaunt]

I just installed Debian 3.0 on a sparc, it supports ext3 which journals.
The install overall was much smoother than previous installs I had done
with previous debian/sparc dists. I used a bootable CD which installed
the base system, and from there everything else came in over the net.


Tom Buskey wrote:

> I've looked & installed Linux on the sun (both SuSE 7.3, Debian Potato
> stable). I'm a bit frustrated with them.  I really want a journaled file
> system on my fileserver, but neither of these distributions offer it on
> sparc.  The BSD systems don't offer it out of the box either but their
> releases are the same level as the Intel platform.  Solaris 9
> does have journaling so I'm considering switching the Sparc 20.