Another question : tape drive

ron.peterson at yellowbank.com ron.peterson at yellowbank.com
Fri May 9 12:19:52 EDT 2003


On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:40:30PM +0000, John Chambers wrote:

> Then there's Linus Torvald's comment that the  best  approach  is  to
> make your stuff so valuable that other people volunteer to back it up
> on their machines.
> 
> While this does minimize his hardware and time for making backups, it
> seems  to  have  imposed a serious cost:  all the time that he's sunk
> into coordinating the distributed archive of his files.

Nevermind the amount of time he's had to spend working on his kernel
code... ;)

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