Date: 18 Jan 2001 13:17:36 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'Andrew Kenneth Milton'" <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering FreeBSD Message-ID: <xzpsnmh5a1r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Koster, K.J."'s message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:58:15 %2B0100" References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B26@l04.research.kpn.com>
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"Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> writes: > > The terminal velocity of a PC case is probably a lot lower than the > > velocity of an outer edge of a 10000 RPM drive. > Hmm. That would make a FreeBSD cluster quite useful as a garden shredder, > even with lower disc rotation speeds I'd imagine. Fun Things To Do With Disks #9,187: Take a powered-up disk out of a hot-swap storage array and experiment with the gyro effect while the disk spins down in your hands. Higher RPMs give better results; try one of the 'cudas from that E10K in the corner... "if you do it quickly, nobody will notice" DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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