Roland Smith writes:
> But why go to all this trouble? Disk space is cheap these days,
> why not add an extra disk? If you don't have space in the
> chassis, consider using an external USB disk for /usr/ports.
Sometimes ... because the machine hardware is not under your
control.
In the mid 90's, I worked on a major workstation upgrade for
the customer support division of a large financial services firm: we
were replacing 386/20s with Pentium 90s.
Most of the old machines were still serviceable - even the ones
that were half-filled with dust still ran - so we looked around for
something to do with them other than the scrap heap.
Off in a cranny in one of the machine rooms was a 286/<mumble>,
whose job it was to dial out twice a day, retrieve a specific piece
of data, and put it in an equally specific place on the file
server. It had been running 24/7 for, well, since you could hook a
286 up to a network file server..
Surely, we thought, we could move things over and increase
reliability, etc..
The word came down from two or threee levels up the food chain:
"Absolutely not. Don't even shut it down to dust."
Robert Huff
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