filePro RAID comments wanted

[John Esak]

>
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:25:54PM -0400, Fairlight thus spoke:
> > This public service announcement was brought to you by Bill Vermillion:
> > >
> > > /u  is an SCOism from my observations.
>
> > Hardly.  :)
>
> > I've seen /u .. /uN on systems as old as 1989 under BSD 4.3
> Tahoe, Ultrix
> > 4.2, and a few others.
>
> Those are pretty ancient.  I only see /u on current systems
> running SCO.
>
> > Depends on the admin, and I -guarantee- that the admins that
> > set it up on those BSD-ish systems did not bring it over from
> > SCO, no matter -what- Darl says about it. :)
>
Jumping in on the end of the thread here... haven't read it all, just the
above comments. Don't even know what it is about, but... I had /u, /u2,/u3,
etc., on my machine in 1988. Don't know _where_ it came from... I thought I
invented it myself, perhaps... :-), but I had this system during the period
of time that I owned several NCR machines, and several SCO machines... no
FreeBSD in sight for me anywhere at that time. The first time I actually saw
/u in an install was SCO. We were just migrating away from Xenix in those
days. There were Berkley O/S's then, but nothing like Free BSD and nothing
you could easily grab from anywhere and install... expecting it to function
in all regards for commercial use. The many variants of cheap/*nix were
popping up around then, too, I tried lots of them, even the ones for $99
bucks that came out a year or two later... do't remember who copied who...
but SCO certainly had installs asking whether you wanted a /u file system
long before any other I saw.

JE