From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 ports to unix (including libdraw) In-reply-to: <7726650d11686c34f6885f4fbd2dc3fc@hamnavoe.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: <3F95E511.7090109@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031008 Thunderbird/0.3 References: <7726650d11686c34f6885f4fbd2dc3fc@hamnavoe.com> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:01:53 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 76aa2d3c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Richard Miller wrote: >>other problems, like my apartment catching fire. > Seems to me there are other possible external causes of multiple disk > failure which are more likely than that one - e.g. spike on the power > line (or don't you get those in the USA?) or air conditioning failure > during a heatwave. Nah, fully privatised power companies, world's best practice, nothing=20 could possibly go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... One other consideration is theft of the fileserver, especially if it is=20 just a PC in the apartment. Just imagine those two perfectly good, reliable, mirrored drives ---=20 stolen along with the stereo and your CDs when the junkies come visiting. > -- Richard --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:ajft@ajft.org Latitude 38=B0S, Longitude 145=B0E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------