Re: first thread

[Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>]

Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Christof Damian wrote:
> 
> > > "What is your favorite kernel feature that _didn't_
> > >  make it in time for 2.2?"
> >
> > - large file support for ia32 (for big mysql databases)
> 
> I had read "make it in time for 2.2" as "was complete but not
> merged".  It will be a nice thing to have (although I'd rather
> just buy an alpha or sparc64 :)

well, there was a patch published, but I didn't see any comment on it by
the main kernel deveoplers.

the advantage of intel is that it is cheap, even if you get hardware
raid controllers and lots of ram. to get this stuff for alpha or sparc64
it gets really expensive, or impossible because the drivers are not
there yet.

christof

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