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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 21:18:03 -0700
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
] In article <31E53C2B.41C67EA6@inuxs.att.com>,
] John S. Dyson <dyson@inuxs.att.com> wrote:
] >
] >Y'know, I usually don't care how big my D$$K is until someone starts
] >making theirs look bigger than it really is...
] 
] Nyaah nyaah, I have a 2GB D$$K in my home machine. AND I modified
] df to actually print out numbers that are twice as large, so it
] _looks_ like I have a 4GB D$$K. So there!
] 
] Now somebody is going to tell me they have a 20GB RAID D$$K that
] does mirroring and striping in hardware. Damn, that's unfair,

Actually, it's 2TB, and the mirroring and striping is in software.

                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@lambert.org
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