Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:16 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> 
>>James wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:17:37 -0400
>>>daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
>>>
>>>
>>>>James wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:24 -0600
>>>>>FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Jes** Chr*** on a blue crutch !!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>-- tying jaw to head !!! --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:35, Peter Ruskin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Monday 17 Jun 2002 17:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 19:39, Peter Ruskin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I believe that is true - I wouldn't try to have a separate
>>>>>>>>>>/etc.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>My separate partitions are:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>><snip>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I'm thinking with that kind of scheme such as you employ, you
>>>>>>>>>must have a buttload of disk space.  ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI
>>>>>>>>Mode.    ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA,
>>>>>>>>hdf:DMA    ide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA,
>>>>>>>>hdh:DMA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>><insert the rest of his mind-numbing parititons here>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm with LX.  Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho,
>>>>>>thats too much of an understatement!
>>>>>
>>>>>3 points.
>>>>>
>>>>>1.  No answer on the 3com thing yet.
>>>>>2.  What's LX
>>>>>3.  I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting.  The have
>>>>>just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone.>
>>>>
>>>>Holyu crap James! I bet it take a little while to do a few small
>>>>queries on that monster! I can't even begin to imagine what a PETAbyte
>>>>looks like.
>>>>
>>>>Mark
>>>
>>>Oh about an 80 x 100 foot room....... and actually most queries he said
>>>take under 20 secs.  It's wild.... I was drooling.  They had one cluster
>>>of 2000 linux boxes.  Right now they are all 1u's since blades still
>>>aren't up to snuff.  This place rocked.
>>
>>Wow! James...I envy you. I've never seen that kind of computing power
>>before. even though I know it exists it's still all myth and legend to me.
>>
>>Mark
> 
> 
> I guess it's all those years with Windows combined with not having any 
> knowledge whatsoever about server farms, but my very first thought was, 
> "Damn, I'll bet it takes a long time to defrag that thing."
> -- cmg
> 

um...whats "defrag"?

Mark



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