[geeks] Eeeek

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd 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.
> >
> > Imagine if you were running a Linux filesystem on a 2TB mainframe DASD,
> > and you had to FSCK.
>
> Well, am I imagining this being XFS, ext3, or reiserfs?

Most of the time, it's actually JFS, but there are places where it isn't.

Peace...  Sridhar