26 Apr
2001
26 Apr
'01
2:16 p.m.
Has anyone else here found older versions of Solaris
on older hardware
to be more stable?
Define older hardware. On my Sparc 10 and 20 I run Solaris 2.6 as it's the
last version to support some of the hardware I use. Though I've been
threatening to move the Sparc 20 to Solaris 8 when I upgrade its harddrives.
Anyway, to those running UNIX systems who are used to
PeeCees running
simpler operating systems and software, a word of advice: UNIX systems
often have many processes running, some of which very well may be in
the middle of writing to your hard disk when you switch the system off
without a proper shutdown... particularly if you've got lots of things
running like a database, have lots of cron jobs, have Apache running,
etc. But, if you enjoy flirting with disaster and have good
backups...
I'll put it another way, if you have the chance to shut a UNIX box down
properly and don't, you're a fool. Especially if the system is like my one
Linux box and has a lot of disk space hanging off of it (about 70GB), as
that's some serious fsck time! Personally if a system has an option to shut
it down gracefully, that's what I do, no matter the OS.
Zane