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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SNAKE CLUSTER(?)
Message-ID: <17780023@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 20 May 91 17:03:32 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.204425.8682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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>    There have been things that HP-UX lacked in the past, like ARPA
>    services, NFS, etc, all of which we now have.  I missed those terribly,
>    so I consider myself to be realistic in my expectations.  But I've never
>    had partitions on my workstation and I've never felt like I was missing
>    out on anything (other than the missed pain of outgrown disk partitions,
>    which I've managed to suplant with the pain of outgrown disks).
>
>That's a strange attitude that I've seen on comp.sys.hp a few times
>already.
>
>Just because you don't think something is useful or desirable, it does
>not mean that your customers will agree with you.  Please let us make
>our own decisions by giving us the functionality and perhaps some
>caveats about why we should think hard before we use the facility.

I think you may have misunderstood. I don't think Rob was saying "I
don't need partitions, so nobody else does." Rather "I don't need
partitions; I wonder why anybody else would." Then you can come along
and say

> In our case, we happen to have an application that can manage its own
> disk, so we have to have two disks on every machine that want to be
> able to use it in this mode.  Since buying two disks for each
> workstation is not necessarily feasible, partitions would come in
> handy.

BTW, someone mentioned that partitions are good for local swap (i.e.
not swapping over the net. HP-UX on the 300/400/700 does separate swap 
and file system space, so swap is partitioned.

		-- Chan "Mr. Snide" Benson