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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:18:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170222031836.GH9439@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYLxRUQmoJcuW2FYheiRQeue3VqoULaCUxCW9XC7Fcm20g@mail.gmail.com>

That was pretty early, Ron.  I betcha if you tried it now (or 10 years 
ago) things would be different.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:04:16AM +0000, ron minnich wrote:
> I got to thinking about the file system sync vs. order argument as a result
> of this interesting discussion.
> 
> Back in NJ in 1998 I had a 144-node PC cluster. It started with 80 FreeBSD
> nodes, and a few months later we add 64 Linux nodes. It was DARPA funded
> and we were looking at issues around clustering.
> 
> What we discovered, when we added the Linux cluster, was that building
> power was really terrible. We had not realized it with the freebsd cluster
> because it tended to cleanly recover from unplanned nasty power cycles. But
> the Linux cluster tended to always have a small number of nodes that did
> not get through fsck.
> 
> yeah, it's not that good a data point maybe, but we found it interesting.

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Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-22  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-21 12:02 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-21 12:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-21 12:57   ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-21 15:02 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22  1:50   ` Dan Cross
2017-02-22  2:25     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-22  3:11     ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22  4:07       ` Dan Cross
2017-02-22  4:17         ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-23 15:31           ` Nemo
2017-02-23 16:00             ` Clem Cole
2017-02-23 16:50               ` Nemo
2017-02-23 22:02               ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-24  1:30                 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-24 20:54                   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-24  1:01               ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-22 10:16       ` jsteve
2017-02-21 15:15 ` Chet Ramey
2017-02-21 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-21 18:58   ` Clem Cole
2017-02-21 19:21     ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-21 20:17       ` Clem Cole
2017-02-21 20:28       ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-21 20:32         ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-21 22:58           ` Wesley Parish
2017-02-22  1:19             ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22  1:35               ` [TUHS] Sun NFS version 2.0 Arthur Krewat
2017-02-22  1:46                 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-22 13:33                   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-23 23:48                     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-24  7:47                       ` arnold
2017-02-22  2:07                 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-22 13:25                   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-22  3:17                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22  8:43                   ` arnold
2017-02-24 20:57                 ` Warren Toomey
2017-02-24 22:09                   ` Warren Toomey
2017-02-26 10:50                   ` Josh Good
2017-02-22  9:00             ` [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other jsteve
2017-02-22  0:52   ` Andy Kosela
2017-02-22  1:04     ` ron minnich
2017-02-22  1:33       ` jason-tuhs
2017-02-22  3:18       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-02-22  3:45         ` ron minnich
2017-02-22  4:06           ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22  4:11             ` Larry McVoy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-02-26 18:33 Norman Wilson
2017-02-28 20:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-22  3:51 Rudi Blom
2017-02-22  1:22 Rudi Blom
2017-02-22  3:08 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-21 21:49 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-21 23:10 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-21 23:14 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-21 16:25 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-21  4:16 Doug McIlroy
2017-02-20  6:38 Rudi Blom
2017-02-19  5:48 Jason Stevens
2017-02-17 16:55 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-17 20:04 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-17 15:47 Atindra Chaturvedi
2017-02-16  7:28 [TUHS] Mushi and Bagu Rudi Blom
2017-02-16  9:36 ` jsteve
2017-02-16 10:42   ` Nick Downing
2017-02-16 13:49     ` Rudi Blom
2017-02-17 11:30       ` [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other jsteve
2017-02-17 14:22         ` Clem Cole
2017-02-17 16:13           ` Chet Ramey
2017-02-17 14:29         ` Clem Cole
2017-02-17 17:23           ` Warner Losh
2017-02-18 22:25           ` Nemo
2017-02-19  6:20             ` jsteve
2017-02-19  7:01               ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-19 13:46                 ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-19 15:44                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-20 18:14                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-20 22:24                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-20 23:16                         ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-20 23:18                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-20 23:25                             ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-20 23:20                           ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-21  0:12                             ` Wesley Parish
2017-02-21  1:05                               ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-21 10:30                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-21 13:47                           ` Random832
2017-02-21 15:18                             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-21 15:54                               ` Diomidis Spinellis
2017-02-21 16:38                                 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-21 16:48                                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-21 16:32                               ` Random832
2017-02-21 16:55                                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-21 17:10                                   ` Dan Cross
2017-02-21 19:44                                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-21 21:17                                       ` Dan Cross
2017-02-21 21:37                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-22  8:57                             ` jsteve
2017-02-22  9:56                               ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-22 10:26                                 ` jsteve
2017-02-22 10:29                               ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-19 21:19               ` Clem Cole
2017-02-20  0:29                 ` Nick Downing
2017-02-20  1:58                   ` Clem Cole
2017-02-20  1:29                 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-19 22:59               ` Derek Fawcus

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