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To: Stormweaver who wrote (16944)	6/8/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Nolan Toone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

WOW! you're right. This would never work!!! Quick we need to tell the Phone company about it so they can change quick. And while you're at it make sure you inform the Power, Gas and Water utilities that everyone wants to generate their own power, drill their own gas and haul their own water so that we won't rely on them if some storm comes by and takes down a power line or something. Man I bet we could make a million selling individual power plants! Thanks for the forward thinking!

To: Stormweaver who wrote (16944)	6/8/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: Alok Sinha	Respond to of 64865

You said " unplug your Sun NFS server and watch all the NFS clients HANG ... " I think you just made an excellent point on the behalf of SUN's reliability. Pulling the plug is probably the only way that the server will go down. The problem in the old days was not that the processing occured centrally. Even today most of computationally intensive applications related to banking, brokerage, trading, air traffic control, scietific simulations are run on mainframes or workstations centrally. The growth of the PC is directly due to improvement in low tech (productivity and presentation applications - WP, Spreadsheet, etc which has made it easier for a lot of people to use computers. Regards Alok

To: Stormweaver who wrote (16944)	6/8/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: Martin Milani	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

have you heard of soft mounts....hahahah...read sys admin 101

To: Stormweaver who wrote (16944)	6/8/1999 6:56:00 PM
From: Mike Grove	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

James Nicoll wrote: >If you don't believe me unplug your Sun NFS server and watch all the >NFS clients HANG ... it's a nice feature of Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 at >least. That's why there is High Availability NFS, High Availability servers, disk mirroring. If it's important enough then HA it and mirror it, and if you loose a server, disk, nfs daemon. No problem you are still running. What do you propose a NetApps with a single Alpha CPU and proprietary disk and RAID technology, or maybe non-stop NT? Give me a break pale. Think before writing. MG