James wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 20:51:38 -0400 > Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > >>On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:16 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> >>>James wrote: >>> >>>>On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:17:37 -0400 >>>>daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary >>>>authority >>>> >>>> >>>>>James wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:24 -0600 >>>>>>FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary >>>>>>authority >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Jes** Chr*** on a blue crutch !! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>-- tying jaw to head !!! -- >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:35, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>On Monday 17 Jun 2002 17:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 19:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>I believe that is true - I wouldn't try to have a separate >>>>>>>>>>>/etc. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>My separate partitions are: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>><snip> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>I'm thinking with that kind of scheme such as you employ, you >>>>>>>>>>must have a buttload of disk space. ;) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary >>>>>>>>>PCI Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: >>>>>>>>>hde:DMA, hdf:DMA ide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS >>>>>>>>>settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA >>>>>>>> >>>>>>><insert the rest of his mind-numbing parititons here> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for >>>>>>>tho, thats too much of an understatement! >>>>>> >>>>>>3 points. >>>>>> >>>>>>1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. >>>>>>2. What's LX >>>>>>3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The >>>>>>have just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server >>>>>>alone.> >>>>> >>>>>Holyu crap James! I bet it take a little while to do a few small >>>>>queries on that monster! I can't even begin to imagine what a >>>>>PETAbyte looks like. >>>>> >>>>>Mark >>>> >>>>Oh about an 80 x 100 foot room....... and actually most queries he >>>>said take under 20 secs. It's wild.... I was drooling. They had >>>>one cluster of 2000 linux boxes. Right now they are all 1u's >>>>since blades still aren't up to snuff. This place rocked. >>> >>>Wow! James...I envy you. I've never seen that kind of computing >>>power before. even though I know it exists it's still all myth and >>>legend to me. >>> >>>Mark >> >>I guess it's all those years with Windows combined with not having any >>knowledge whatsoever about server farms, but my very first thought >>was, "Damn, I'll bet it takes a long time to defrag that thing." >>-- cmg > > > With tongue in cheek I asked him about fsck... He laughed and said It's > faster to restore from backup and skip it. > > James >
now _that_ is truely scary.
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