On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 23:45 Europe/London, the pickle wrote: >> NetBSD and Linux both have facility to shut off idle hard disks. The >> answer thusly is you don't you just set your chosen *NIX up to spin it >> off after it's been idle for 5 mins. Because everything you need is >> loaded into RAM you won't need to spin it up again until you reboot. > > But the disk is still *there*. Which doesn't really jive with the > definition > of "diskless." :(
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