[Gllug] [OT] Appreciation

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Tue Dec 19 20:37:14 UTC 2006


On 19 Dec 2006, James Bailey verbalised:
> Nix wrote:
>> On 17 Dec 2006, Matthew King uttered the following:
>>> Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> On more than several occassions I have been able to recover data from failed disks as a result.
>>> Does "more than several" mean "many", "some" or "a lot"?
>> Or infinitely many?
>> (But no. That would be surreal.)
>>
> Don't, having the concept of infinite sets being applied to RAID
> arrays at this time of the morning hurts.  Bummer if you ended up with
> infinite seek time. :)

It's a perfectly ordinary Redundant Array of Infinite Disks. (I hear
Cantor makes excellent cases for these; install one and you're set.)

-- 
`He accused the FSF of being "something of a hypocrit", which
 shows that he neither understands hypocrisy nor can spell.'
   --- jimmybgood
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