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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SNAKE CLUSTER(?)
Message-ID: <839@tiamat.fsc.com>
Date: 20 May 91 22:23:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.204425.8682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <5570633@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <1991May16.011210.17043@cs.umn.edu>
Organization: Ahlstrom Filtration - Chattanooga,TN
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In article <1991May16.011210.17043@cs.umn.edu>, ianhogg@cs.umn.edu (Ian J. Hogg) writes:
>   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.

When we used (please don't laugh) Altos computers as our main machines, the
Altos's did not support disk partitions or symbolic links.  Adding a disk
to the system meant you had to add the entire disk under one directory.
This was not very convenient from an organizational standpoint.  Under HP-UX,
symbolic links help to resolve this, but I still prefer partitions.

I only wish HP's partition scheme was more flexible.  We have several SCO
Xenix and Unix machines, which allows complete control over the partition
sizes.  Under HP-UX 7.0, it was not possible to simply divide a disk
drive in half. :-(
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James B. O'Connor			jim@tiamat.fsc.com
Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc.		615/821-4022 x. 651