[ale] Linux at Weather.com

[Greg]

During the *ahem Mandrake 8.0* install (which I did twice tonight for
practice) one can install the reiserfs file system.  When you are
partitioning the disk you select "reiserfFS" .  I think that you can do it
also in Red Hat 7.1, Caldera and Mandrake 7.2 also.  If you go to the
website www.namesys.com you can get the lowdown on conversion and several
downloads to do it...  But the only way I found to convert was in the FAQ.
The conversion involved copying the data in whole on the partition to
another partition, converting it using the utility "mkreiserf" and copying
the data back to the recently converted now reiserfs partition.  If anyone
does come across a way to convert the whole p.c. to reiserfs in one fell
swoop I would certainly like to know too.

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org] On Behalf Of Casey Allen
Shobe
Sent:	Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:17 PM
To:	C I; Jim Philips
Cc:	ale at ale.org
Subject:	Re: [ale] Linux at Weather.com

We already have reiserfs built into the 2.4 kernels, which is far more
complete
than ext3 -- Some distributions *ahem SuSE ahem* support using it instead of
ext2 during the install process.  Now we just need a utility that will
convert
an ext2 filesystem into reiserfs.

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, C I wrote:
> This setup is in a radio commercial for IBM.  In the
> spot the CIO for weather.com is talking about how IBM
> helped them upgrade and how they brought in Linux
> servers.
>
> Also didn't I read somewhere that journaling was going
> to added when we get the ext3 file system.  Or was
> that just wishful thinking on my part.
>
> CI
>
>
> --- Jim Philips <jim.philips at s1.com> wrote:
> > I wish I had a link for this, but it came to me in
> > an html e-mail and
> > sending it to the list would be messy. Anyway,
> > techtarget.com sent an
> > article about weather.com's conversion to a totally
> > Linux server setup.
> >
> > High points:
> >
> > The Linux setup there now handles between 10 and 15
> > million hits a day!
> > Open Source has proven to offer better security than
> > closed source.
> >
> > Low points:
> >
> > Linux still has a long way to go when it comes to
> > handling symmetric
> > multi-processing beyond two processors.
> > They still need a journaling file system.
> >
> > But overall, Linux has been a huge success for
> > weather.com. So, the next
> > time an IT manager casts doubts on Linux' ability to
> > perform in a true
> > large-scale server operation, point them to
> > weather.com.
> >
> > Hats off to our boys up in Marietta!
> >
> > Jim Philips
> >
> > Worldwide Customer Support
> > S1 Corporation
> > 3390 Peachtree Rd., Suite 1700, Atlanta, GA 30326
> > Email: jim.philips at s1.com Phone: 678-421-4611
> > www.s1.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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