[geeks] Eeeek

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:

> 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.

When I said that a mainframe would take 30 minutes to reboot, I meant that
it would take 30 minutes to get to the start of OS load.

Peace...  Sridhar

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