Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:57:06 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: `time make buildworld' Message-ID: <20001009145705.B16050@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <39E22008.5AFEADA@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:44:08PM -0700 References: <20001009141136.A16050@futuresouth.com> <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200010080002.e9802ma83795@nospam.hiwaay.net> <200010091928.NAA14035@harmony.village.org> <39E22008.5AFEADA@urx.com>
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[Trim the CC's a bit and move over to -chat, we're so far off-topic for -stable I can see my house from here ;] On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:44:08PM -0700, a little birdie told me that Kent Stewart remarked > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <20001009141136.A16050@futuresouth.com> "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: > > : I have a 386 SX/20 with 4 megs running a fairly recent (~8 month old) > > : 2.1-STABLE. Last buildworld I did on it (over nfs to my workstation) > > : took approx. 11 days IIRC. I wouldn't even consider doing a buildworld > > : on it (80 meg drive... yum.) > > > > Just go and try to buy a 80MB hard drive these days. It is nearly > > impossible. Unless you want flash :-) > > I was reading info on Maxtor's size limiting option because of the > rash of 20+GB drives that FreeBSD thought were 2GB'ers. It turns out > that a single platter is now 15GB. *guh* Maybe its time to build my distributed mass-storage pool, wherein I buy a bunch of 30 gig drives, 1 per system, put the OS on 2 gigs of it, and NFS export the other 28 gigs, put big single files on them that I vn mount, and build the vn's into a big vinum fs. Muahahahahahahahaha! Nothing like RAID0 or 0+1 over a bunch of NFS partitions... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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