OT: redhat

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 06:04:36PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> You'll never BELIEVE what Bill Vermillion said here...:
> > I've seen that too. Using 2GB+ is not unusual in Linux, but using 
> > more than 100MB in FreeBSD / is unusual.  Though the 5.x has
> 
> I think Bill said that one of the latest (SuSE 9.2??) uses over 6 gigs if
> you install everything, wasn't it?

Might have been me.  9.1 is very close to that.

> People really should replace their media once in a while, as well.  I can't
> believe anyone could -miss- tapes being off the reels.  But tape just goes
> bad after a while, as well.  I dunno what the rule of thumb is, but I
> should guess that replacing the batch of tapes at least once a year is a
> prudent move.

That's what we spec, even though that's only 50 passes, which is
considerably less than what the tapes ought to be good for.

Cheers,
-- jra
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