[Info-vax] Unpleasant Disk Shadowing Surprise

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 10/12/2011 3:38 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> Kenneth Fairfield wrote:
>
>> OK, this is getting ridiculous: "You show me yours, then
>> I'll show you mine" ???  You didn't answer my question.
>> Nor VAXman's earlier in this thread.  Sigh...
>
>
> Consider the possibility that this "tadasmar" works in a high security
> area and cannot reveal much of his environment.
>
> Mind you, showing relevant entries in the error log would not jeopardize
> any information since it would jusyt be disk level errors and not
> related to any other devices.

His environment MAY be "high security" but the hardware configuration is 
probably NOT classified "FANTASTICALLY SECRET Burn Before Reading"
You could probably buy most, or all, of the hardware "off the shelf".

OTOH, if you get a glimpse of the software or the data, they may have to 
have you killed!

Just don't get too curious.  We'd miss you.

On a related subject, how many of you suspect that the late Terrence C. 
Shannon might be alive today if he had managed to keep his mouth shut?
"Pneumonia" is rarely fatal these days but "Logorrhea" can be!