[Info-vax] satellite with more than one boot server
David Froble
davef at tsoft-inc.com
Sat Feb 2 16:08:38 EST 2013
Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2013-02-02 18:50:36 +0000, David Froble said:
>
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>> What's your goal here? Complexity? Uptime? Screwing around?
>>
>> I long ago formed the conclusion that Philip's goal was to have
>> complexity for the sake of complexity. I've never seen anything that
>> he's written that indicated having a cluster served any purpose, other
>> than having one just because he could.
>>
>> But that's Ok. If it amuses him to form and operate a cluster, he
>> should be free to do so.
>>
>> VMS has many capabilities that I've never felt the need to use.
>> Mirror disks. RAID. DECnet V.
>
>
> Which gets back to the classic "why bother asking?" question.
>
> If the whole goal is complexity, or if it's for giggles or screwing
> around, or for learning....
>
> Just. Go. Do. It.
>
> See what happens.
>
>
I believe that's what he did, and ran into problems.
If I was to attempt the same, I feel certain that my ignorance of some
things would quickly bite me and I'd be back here asking questions.
As an example, I am totally ignorant on the subject of disk class, and
don't respond to that, I don't need to know and don't want to know.
:-)
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