On Friday, 03-01-2025 at 10:18 Michael Stone wrote:
> 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 :)
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> 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
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> >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.
LOL - I do recall using 1200 and 2400 baud modems. When 9600 baud modems came
out, it was like WOW. (ouch the memory cells hurt)
Windows 3.0 on LANtastic over a telephone line modem. Good for chatting, not
so great for file transfer, but it was my first from 'home to a remote
location' networking.
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