henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/09/89)
In article <1146@atha.AthabascaU.CA> rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander) writes: >...I and 2 other staff converted a 1,300 MByte Vax from Ultrix >1.2 to 2.3, in the process changing the partitions around and entirely >rebuilding all the filesystems. The I/O time was as nothing compared >to the thinking time required. And this was using dinky little 2400 >foot 6250 bpi tapes ... It may not have dawned on you that even the poorest 6250 tape, far from being "dinky", is *lots* better than the backup media many people have. Even in VAX/Ultrix shops, there are many people who hesitate to rearrange filesystems because of slow, small backup media (e.g. try doing 1.5GB of disk with TK50s, a situation one of my friends is facing now...). >I have >limited sympathy for the "it'll take too much effort to dump/restore" >crowd. I have considerable sympathy for them. It may help that utzoo was using 1600-bpi tape recently enough for me to remember it well. Remember what happened to the last person who said "let them eat cake". -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu