On Fri October 9 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:14:23AM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote: > > On Fri October 9 2009, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > > > > Dear Community! > > > > > > as I already announced some time ago, we started to > > > stabilize the Linux-VServer patchset to produce a > > > development version and after further stabilization > > > a new stable release ... > > > > > > I already cleaned up the scheduler stuff, incorporating > > > the upcoming CFS hard limits, and most of the filesystem > > > related code. during this, we added back support for > > > cluster filesystem like ocfs2 and gfs2, and first > > > support for the new btrfs filesystem. naturally this > > > needs some extensive testing, which I'd gladly out- > > > source to persons willing to help there ... please > > > contact me (preferably on IRC) for details. > > > > > > there will be more testing to be done in the near > > > future and I'll setup a wiki page to coordinate this > > > and allow for some kind of 'checklist' ... speaking > > > of wiki pages, I added a new one with a list of hardware > > > I'd be interested in, so if you want to say thanks, > > > and don't want to spend time on testing or similar, > > > please don't hesitate to pick something from there :) > > > > > > http://linux-vserver.org/Make_Bertl_Happy_Hardware_List > > > That Samsung drive is relatively slow - you might want > > to re-think that one. > > okay, what about the Western Digital Caviar Green > 1500GB, 32MB Cache, SATA II (WD15EADS) instead? > I haven't use that model - although I have used a lot of WD drives. I do have a pair of WD10EAVS drives (slow to startup, quick to sleep). I do have seagate drives similar to the models on your list - no complaints. Used in RAID? In general for RAID, avoid the "green" drives of any make - they are usually very aggressive about entering standby/sleep - which means in a RAID array a lot of head load/unload cycles. Note: I did not follow my own advice above - my "slow, green" drives are a RAID-1 pair but they are "archive space". My pair of seagate drives are on the same machine, also in RAID-1, and I was doing multiple kernel builds a day for months, no complaints. Mike > thanks, > Herbert > > > Mike > > > TIA, > > > Herbert > > > > > > > > > > > > >