[tech] Burner vs. Diablo 2 (Re: [ucc] AGM Minutes)y

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 12:14:22AM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:20:30PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
[...]
> Uhhh.... NFS?
> Files on morwong, mkisofs, put ISO image onto SS2, burn CD.

Not to morwong - we haven't done that space upgrade yet.

Even given that, having to get everything on and off via 10Mbps NFS (we
don't have any 100Mbps Suns) is a bit sucky. Rearranging on local disc
is better, but space for one image does not really suffice.

The space issue is easy to fix though, 9GB HDDs are cheap enough.

> You can do loopback with software from cdrecord's author on Solaris
> previous to v8 & Sol8 won't run on a Sparc2.

<nod>

[...]
> I could get enough IRIX with 4Dwm with some space for a CD image
> onto a 2GB disk. I think so, anyway.

azure's got a 2GB disk and 282MB free, scarlet's got 1GB and is pretty
crippled. It'd be nice to have enough room for a nice fat /usr/local/* .

I don't think they're on a 100Mbps switch - getting 729K/sec from
azure, 664K/sec from scarlet. I seem to recall we were having some
problems making them talk at 100Mbps properly...

> > > Linux, linux, linux, linux. tsk. 
> > The filesystem support is pretty handy for this sort of thing. 'Course
[...]
> Which filesystem?

Pretty much all of them.

devfs so we can do things all nice and securely from userspace is a
nice touch. Pretty much every on disk format you can think of, except
perhaps AdvFS. Burning under MacOS Classic and Windows is pretty
limiting by comparison, though at least you can do dd tricks on pretty
much any *nix.

[...]
> > You're most untrusting - home directory backups and free software not
> > good enough for you, eh? ::-)
> 
> I was waiting for that... when was the last time someone backed up their
> home directory? Seriously?
[...]

Shame on you - to suggest that the UCC burner might be used to transfer
ill-gotten filez. The very thought. <tut> <tut>

As for home directories - I've only used the CD-R for that a couple of
times; I blame the lack of CD-RW support and automated helpful scripts.
What I do now is rsync to my laptop via wavelan, about once a week or so.

Nick.

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