[Fwd: [Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup]

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Thu Apr 21 14:29:51 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-20-04 at 15:43 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 15:51 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > Do you have inside information to when drives >2TB will 
> > be affordable to the average person or even available?
> 
> Oh?  So we're talking about the average person again right?  Guess what,
> grub works for the average person.  The unaverage can spend their
> unaverage time to source lilo into the distro and make it their boot
> loader.  The rest of the average world can continue using GRUB and
> benefit from the developer time freed up from dealing with the crap pile
> that Lilo has become.
> 
> > That argument is just nuts. Drive prices will have to 
> > drop to 10% of what they are now per GB, and as far as 
> > I know there aren't any commonly available .5TB drives 
> > yet. It will likely be a couple years before a 2TB 
> > drive will be commonly available.
> 
> I'm not speaking of a single drive, I'm speaking of RAID arrays.  We
> sell on average 4 machines a week that are capable of a > 2TB block
> device.  Thats a lot of systems.  WAY more that systems we sell with
> onboard pata, onboard sata, add on pata and add on sata....  In fact,
> we've NEVER sold one of those.
Oh goody for you.
> 
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On oh so many levels, not.




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