[geeks] Eeeek

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Apr 10 20:35:37 CDT 2002


On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:39:03PM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> 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.

Well, am I imagining this being XFS, ext3, or reiserfs? 

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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