large filesystem & fileserver architecture issues.

[Roger L. Smith]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:15:01PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > 	- IDE is not amazingly fast, reliable or scalable.
>
> That's about like saying "commondity servers are not fast, reliable,
> or scalable, so I'm going to buy an SGI Altix instead of a Beowulf."
>
> More facts, less religion.

Since when has the value of facts outweighed religion on *THIS* list?!

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