From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 10:13:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F73F37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14JJYY-0006nD-00; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:13:06 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0IIEY220869; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:14:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:14:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'Andrew Kenneth Milton'" , heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clustering FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010118191434.A20807@freebie.demon.nl> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B26@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:17:36PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:17:36PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "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" 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