On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 09:59:20AM +1100, George at Clug wrote:
On Friday, 03-01-2025 at 09:46 fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote:
i managed a half dozen hp9000 servers with 200 2gb drives
lvm came in pretty handy :)
I have no good memories of hpux servers. :-D But yes, the linux LVM was
inspired by HP/UX's. The best integration of volume management was
probably AIX, where (for example) the package manager would check
whether enough space was available on relevant partitions and ask if you
wanted to grow them if there was not. I think (but I'm not certain) it
could offer to shrink other volumes to make that possible. Don't take
that as a recommendation to use AIX. :-D :-D
Was fibre for networking part of that build? (I am guessing RAID was also used)
If there was fiber, it was probably FDDI or maybe ATM (155Mbit).
10BASE-F ethernet was a thing, but only made long runs possible rather
than making things particularly fast.
What was the data throughput like?
Maybe as good as your phone...this was probably 30 years ago or more.
