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From: ianhogg@cs.umn.edu (Ian J. Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SNAKE CLUSTER(?)
Message-ID: <1991May16.011210.17043@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 01:12:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.204425.8682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5570633@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In article <5570633@hpfcdc.HP.COM> rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason) writes:
>
>What IS the big advantage to partitions on a workstation?

  1. You can prevent users from filling up entire disks.
  2. Mirroring on a partition basis and on-line backups.
  3. I hope their aren't too many out there, but I've heard some application
     like to talk to a raw disk partition and manage it themselves.
  4. I can keep a partition from being mounted via NFS.

  If there is no advantage to having partitions why are they supported on
  the 800's?  It would be reasonable to have the default configuration be
  one giant partition but ultimately the customers should be able to
  configure the system the way they want.

>
>Rob
>
>"Yes, I work for HP, but ignore what I say here:  it's strictly my own."


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