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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Robert Widmer <robertwidmer@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Power loss and zero-length files
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:32:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5217E2FA.1030008@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130823154534.GM7153@sgi.com>

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.

-- 
Stan

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-23 22:32 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 [this message]
2013-08-23 22:50         ` Ben Myers
2013-08-24  2:35           ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-08-24 11:15 ` Christoph Hellwig

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