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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:14:34 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'Andrew Kenneth Milton'" <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clustering FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010118191434.A20807@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <xzpsnmh5a1r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:17:36PM %2B0100
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B26@l04.research.kpn.com> <xzpsnmh5a1r.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:17:36PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "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"

Sure.. as long as it is RAID5, 1 or 0+1 nobody will notice. Done it myself
;)

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