Re: [TriLUG] suse linux limits

2007-02-18 Thread Magnus
Tanner Lovelace wrote: Out of curiosity, why are you using ext3 for a system like that when you admit it has serious limitations? Why not a filesystem like XFS who's maximum file systems size is 8 exabytes[1] (16 terrabytes on 32 bit linux systems because of os limitations). Because ext3 is

Re: [TriLUG] Interesting issue

2007-02-18 Thread Alan Porter
IMHO,the crickets gives the user two possible answers: 1. The problem is too simple for anyone to bother answering. 2. The problem is too complex and no one knows the answer. Don't take it so personally. A lot of times it just means you asked the question at the wrong time... like when

Re: [TriLUG] suse linux limits

2007-02-18 Thread David McDowell
Our company has only 56 people. Just in the last 3 months we have added 2 servers with 1.2TB each and a 16 slot LTO3 autoloader. One is a PE 2950 w/ 16GB ram, 2 x quad core Xeon, running VMware ESX Vi3 and the other runs ESX Ranger Pro and Backup Exec. Prior to this, our largest server storage

Re: [TriLUG] Return of BZFlag?

2007-02-18 Thread David McDowell
I'll vote for Thursdays... one more guitar class this month and then I'm dropping it for a while. :) On 2/16/07, Kevin Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there interest in resuming our nightly rounds of BZFlag? We used to do 21:15 Eastern. -- Kevin -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] suse linux limits

2007-02-18 Thread Robert Dale
On 2/18/07, Magnus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tanner Lovelace wrote: Out of curiosity, why are you using ext3 for a system like that when you admit it has serious limitations? Why not a filesystem like XFS who's maximum file systems size is 8 exabytes[1] (16 terrabytes on 32 bit linux systems

Re: [TriLUG] suse linux limits

2007-02-18 Thread Magnus
Robert Dale wrote: Technically, that's what the installer gives for formatting options. The installer (the kernel running) supports JFS, XFS, and possibly others, and will allow you to install to those partitiions. And if I have any issues with the filesystem, Red Hat will tell me to pound

Re: [TriLUG] suse linux limits

2007-02-18 Thread Tanner Lovelace
On 2/18/07, Magnus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Dale wrote: Technically, that's what the installer gives for formatting options. The installer (the kernel running) supports JFS, XFS, and possibly others, and will allow you to install to those partitiions. And if I have any issues with

[TriLUG] OT: Article on Google, Lenoir in Independant

2007-02-18 Thread Joseph Mack NA3T
FYI Joe -- Independant, Wed Feb 19, 2007, p18 How about a raffle to pay for Google Incentives Kirk Ross You might think that the rest of the country is looking askance at all the bristling over Google's incentives for its new server farm in Lenoir, but as Ed Cone recently pointed

Re: [TriLUG] Positions with Google in NC

2007-02-18 Thread Aaron S. Joyner
Warning, this is one of those Aaron emails that goes on for ever. I actually wrote it in two sittings, it took so long. If you're not interested in the internals of Google compensation, you may safely stop reading now. bak wrote: Bear with me for a minute, I haven't discussed this with more

Re: [TriLUG] Positions with Google in NC

2007-02-18 Thread Magnus
Aaron, thank you so much for your thoughtful contributions to this thread. I've personally found it very interesting to read, from both sides. Just an unsolicited $0.02: Aaron S. Joyner wrote: So, base salary isn't what one might typically expect. And even from the offer letter, it's

Re: [TriLUG] Positions with Google in NC

2007-02-18 Thread bak
Magnus wrote: Aaron, thank you so much for your thoughtful contributions to this thread. I've personally found it very interesting to read, from both sides. Just an unsolicited $0.02: Aaron S. Joyner wrote: So, base salary isn't what one might typically expect. And even from the offer

Re: [TriLUG] Positions with Google in NC

2007-02-18 Thread Aaron S. Joyner
bak wrote: Magnus wrote: Aaron, thank you so much for your thoughtful contributions to this thread. I've personally found it very interesting to read, from both sides. Just an unsolicited $0.02: Aaron S. Joyner wrote: So, base salary isn't what one might typically expect. And even from

Re: [TriLUG] Positions with Google in NC

2007-02-18 Thread bak
Aaron S. Joyner wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear. I was simply saying that I did take a hard look at the base salary, and the other unlikely-to-change benefits of the team I would be working with, etc - and decided that was enough for me to make the decision to move to CA and work for Google. It

Re: [TriLUG] Positions with Google in NC

2007-02-18 Thread Aaron S. Joyner
bak wrote: Aaron S. Joyner wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear. I was simply saying that I did take a hard look at the base salary, and the other unlikely-to-change benefits of the team I would be working with, etc - and decided that was enough for me to make the decision to move to CA and work