[ale] mounted filesystem becomes read-only

[Geoffrey]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Well if you compare to yesteryear - I remember first time I read the
> manual for the AT&T 3B2-400 thinking "how could anyone ever need 8 MB
> of memory" - that was back when you had to get add-on cards to get to
> 640K in a PC-XT.

I'm pretty sure 3b2-300 was limited to 8 and the 400 would go to 16?
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: ale-bounces at ale.org
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg Freemyer Sent: Friday,
> June 11, 2010 5:33 PM To: mike at trausch.us; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> - Yes! We run Linux! Subject: Re: [ale] mounted filesystem becomes
> read-only
> 
> RE: USB 3
> 
> I've got a friend that bought a high-end machine (water cooled, lots 
> of cpu / ram, internal raid) for work.  (Can you say overkill?)
> 
> Anyway, it has USB 3 and he got a USB 3 carrier.
> 
> He said with large files he's getting close to 6GB / min copying in 
> big files to his raid, which is very good even for Sata/eSata.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 14:55 -0400, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>> (Or maybe a sadist like BOFH who wants to make sure his users
>>> don't expect good performance.)
>> I would love to take a time machine and go back to 1950 with my
>> desktop and a USB-attached 2.2 TB of storage.  Of course, I might
>> then be hung or drowned or something, being accused of being a
>> black magician...
>> 
>> It is interesting, though, that even figures that are very very
>> very fast are still not fast enough for us.  USB 3 probably won't
>> even provide "good" performance for disk-based I/O, just because it
>> seems impossible to get the full advertised bandwidth with USB even
>> if a device is the only one on the bus.  *shrug*
>> 
>> --- Mike
>> 
>> _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list 
>> Ale at ale.org http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS,
>> ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson