Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:26:38 -0600 CDT From: "Larry Dolinar" <larryd@bldg1.croute.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD Message-ID: <204A515F05@bldg1.croute.com> In-Reply-To: <19970521074617.TD13830@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.A41.3.95.970520155953.24208A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on May 20, 1997 16:04:51 -0500
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And the clouds parted on 21 May 97, and J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> said: >As Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > >> I don't doubt it, they receive good cash from everything they sell, the >> problem is that either their products suck (like AIX and AS400), ... > >AIX has it's good ends, too. I would be more than happy to have their >LVM and JFS in FreeBSD, trust me. > >When i ran `shutdown' on an AIX machine some time ago, my colleague >asked me, apparently astonished: ``Why the heck do you do this? >Simply turn it off!'' :) Bet *he* never spent any significant time trying to revive a bootable filesystem that got trashed by that approach... > >-- >cheers, J"org We just fired a guy that repeatedly ignored standard shutdown procedures on one of our Sparc 10's. His rationale: the Unix for Dummies book didn't say anything about it. Good thing I didn't get to him first [diabolical laughter..] cheers, larry
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