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 ;) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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