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why???
Lets say you wish to backup some Unix machines using "rsync -b", lets say that you wish to buy an Apple Xserve and Xserve RAID rather go with some expensive brand that you don't trust (or a no name you don't trust), you get the system set up and you discover that some of the files on the Unix systems you are backing up are of the form "Makefile" and "makefile" in the same directory (for example), well HFS+ can't handle that, then you discover that UFS is limited to 963 GB but your Xserve RAIDs are 1.0.1 TB each, then you partition one Xserve RAID into two UFS partitions, now you move 200 GB from the HFS+ RAID to the new UFS RAID, and now the Xserve crashes and continues to crash anytime you do any large data accesses to the UFS RAID. Try explaining to you boss why you need to spend $500 on a new OS for a machine that you just bought (you spend $13K on a machine and two months later Apple won't let you upgrade the OS without paying full price, obviously they haven't looked at the details of the warranties of other companies selling into that price range, i.e. SGI). Of course this would be all theoretical except I'm living it. |
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