[geeks] Eeeek

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Kris Kirby 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.

Peace...  Sridhar