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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pineview atom
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:46:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df11002181246rba8e3aeu98ab4a26997906db@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1ae15d2c80dc5c8dbbdc28ee274f29d@coraid.com>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:

> while i agree in general that ecc is a good idea, i can't
> subscribe to predictions that seem so far from real-world
> experience.

in many cases it's all about location. Where I used to live, 7200 feet
up, it was a huge issue. Where you live, i am assuming close to sea
level, and with a small number of machines, the statistics say that
you're unlikely to see it. But I would not want to take several
thousand of your machines to Los Alamos and try to make them run ...

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18 16:56 erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 18:26 ` matt
2010-02-18 18:31   ` ron minnich
2010-02-18 18:43     ` Patrick Kelly
2010-02-18 20:04     ` David Leimbach
2010-02-18 18:39   ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 20:46     ` ron minnich [this message]
2010-02-18 21:03       ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 21:14     ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-18 22:38       ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 23:08         ` roger peppe
2010-02-18 23:12         ` Adrian Tritschler
2010-02-18 23:27           ` ron minnich
2010-02-19 21:59             ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-20 22:17               ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-21 19:46                 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-03-05 10:01                 ` hugh
2010-03-05 17:32                   ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-18 18:43   ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-08 17:57   ` Albert Skye
2010-03-08 19:06     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-08 19:47     ` Jonas Amoson
2010-03-08 20:11       ` erik quanstrom

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