gmarquez wrote:
> Trust me I hear what your saying in RH8 reaching its End Of Life. Issue
> here is that we have a production server currently running on RH 8.0
> which our developers have developed software for our customers on these
> systems. So my job as MIS is to ensure that the systems are running and
> fault-tolerant.

I would have said your job includes educating the ignorant, actually, as
well. But since you're into old software, Promise at one time made an
adaptor for IDE drives which allowed you to put two drives into RAID-1
off a single cable connection. So your controller thought it had one
drive, but in truth it had an itty-bitty RAID-1 array.

Several companies make a box of IDE drives which looks like a single
SCSI drive (or small number of same in JBOD) when in reality it's RAID
of some flavor. This allows you to use an obsolete but supported SCSI
controller from the last millenium.

Final thought, you could build the kernel as UML and run it under a
newer kernel, use vmware (maybe, netBSD works), or put the hardware on a
modern machine with proper backup and use nbd or NFS for the file system.

I would tell management that RH8.0 is like Win98, and that it's time to
move on. If your developers wrote code which is so non-portable that it
won't run with a recompile you have a non-technical problem, baaad
practices.

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bill davidsen
SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
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