From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 4:18: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBE637B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 04:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA47509; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:17:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Andrew Kenneth Milton'" , heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering FreeBSD References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B26@l04.research.kpn.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Jan 2001 13:17:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Koster, K.J."'s message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:58:15 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Koster, K.J." 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