We had trouble sharing tape drives with Linux via SSO. Linux saw a
reserved tape drive as unavailble & didn't built it in. Since it builds
the device list every time it starts, drives were appearing &
disappearing all the time. You can kludge around it but any update from
Veritas would probably require that everything be re-kludged.
Had a tkt open with Veritas for weeks until the answer finally came back
that "it just works that way".
We haven't tried it since our latest Linux upgrade to the 2.6 kernel -
don't know if things changed or now.
We also had trouble with QLogic drivers crashing Linux but that's not
Veritas' fault.
If you're attaching a dedicated drive to your media server, I'd say, "no
problem". Otherwise, I'd suggest that you test, test, test.
-M
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Are Linux media servers OK to use?
Hi all,
We are looking at connecting up several Linux media servers running
either
RHEL3 or RHEL4, and wanting to know what people think of them. The
hardware
will probably be IBM Intel servers. Our environment is NBU 6.0 with STK
PowderHorn and SL8500 tape libraries, with 9940 and T10000 tape drives.
Has anyone go any/many of these in their environments, and if so, what
do
you think of them. Is throughput good? Do they have many issues?
We will be connecting a few TB of disk to them to use as a disk staging
pool, and then off-loading the data onto tape (DSSU).
Thanks in advance.
Ian Fehring
Lead Technical Specialist, Storage Management
National Australia Bank
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