[geeks] Eeeek

[Kris Kirby]

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.
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