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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: Robert Widmer <robertwidmer@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Power loss and zero-length files
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:50:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130823225035.GQ7153@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5217E2FA.1030008@hardwarefreak.com>

Hey Stan,

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:32:26PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 8/23/2013 10:45 AM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:27:19AM -0400, Robert Widmer wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> >> The person ran the script, unplugged the machine (instead of shutting
> >> it down like they were told), and boxed it up.
> > 
> > lol  ;)
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty ignorant.  Reminds me of this thread in March:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2013-03/msg00152.html
> 
> But "we" (IT industry) shot ourselves in the foot when we began using
> the word "appliance".  No wonder then that some people literally treat
> them as such.

On the other foot, it's probably not such an unreasonable expectation for
someone coming from a different background to expect that once it *looks* done
it actually *is* done.

It's as if you were to take me scuba diving, or drag racing... I have zero
expertise and I'd probably be doing all the silly ignorant things too.

Or... maybe the tech was just in a hurry and didn't think all the way through
the consequences.  I've been there.  ;)

Regards,
	Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-23 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23 14:59 Power loss and zero-length files Robert Widmer
2013-08-23 15:20 ` Ben Myers
2013-08-23 15:27   ` Robert Widmer
2013-08-23 15:45     ` Ben Myers
2013-08-23 22:32       ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-08-23 22:50         ` Ben Myers [this message]
2013-08-24  2:35           ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-08-24 11:15 ` Christoph Hellwig

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