Hello! Google runs Linux. It quite logically wrote its own distribution using the Linux from Scratch Book rules. And naturally wrote its own file system.
And I looked at the original website. It made me think of Slash Dot, except with more intelligent posters. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > shogunx > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Google out of capacity? > > On Fri, 5 May 2006, Vic Cross wrote: > > > On 05/05/2006, at 5:53am, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > > > > > A long time ago I read that they did TCO studies, and found it less > > > costly to buy lots of low cost hardware over buying fewer high cost > > > systems. > > > > "A long time ago" is the point. When I read similar, the server > > count was around 8000 -- it would seem that they've grown > > considerably beyond that now. I doubt they've updated their TCO > > analysis accordingly... :) > > The real question is could a z9 outprocess existing clusters, out scale > them at the same rate, and do so in such a fashion as to make it > attractive to google to abandon its own in-house OS? > > > > > Cheers, > > Vic Cross > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > sleekfreak pirate broadcast > http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
