[geeks] Eeeek

[Shawn Wallbridge]

We have a Linux box with 320GB on it. It was taking a while to figure out
how to get ReiserFS going (this was a while ago) and people started asking
why I didn't have it running yet. When I explained that I could have it
running NOW, but if the machine crashed it would take about a day to reboot,
they left me alone.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Kris Kirby
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:52 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Cc: Kurt Huhn
Subject: Re: [geeks] Eeeek


On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> Especially if $clueless_moron were to reboot my mainframe, I'd be forced
> to go medieval on their ass.  Bringing a mainframe up with a full set of
> power-on tests takes about half an hour.

One of my least favorite moments in computing was when one of my two "big"
PCs would go down -- one had 66 GB of IDE disk (non-RAID config) and the
other has 30GB of RAID5 IDE.

fsck takes quite a while on those filesystems; moreso on the 66GB one
because it had more delta than the other one.

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Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
<kris at nospam.catonic.net>   | IM: KrisBSD | HSV, AL.
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