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<0> I've got a script that mounts a hard drive and then copies a large amount of data onto the drive, and then unmounts the drive...
<0> now, I'm trying to figure out how to make sure I never accidentally fill my main drive if a mount fails
<1> check the return status of the mount
<1> $? in bash
<0> ah, much simpler than what I was thinking
<0> I was going to put all of the mount points in a read-only 1MB loopback filesystem
<1> craziness
<0> :P
<1> worse case scenario, you use the 'mount' command or 'df' command to find out if it is mounted
<1> but return status of mount is easiest
<0> yeah, I'm just having a bad day, not thinking straight
<0> my wife has wrecked 2 cars in less than 2 weeks
<1> awesome
<0> heh, if you say so
<0> she was at fault both times
<1> that just further proves my point
<1> WOMEN CAN'T ****ING DRIVE
<0> heh
<1> I don't care who you are, if you are female, you can't drive
<0> I'm *making* her take a defensive driving course
<2> i've NEVER wrecked my car
<2> how many guys in here can say that?
<1> octalpus: I can
<0> neither had she, until 1.5 weeks ago
<2> i bet i drive better than at least 90% of the guys in here
<2> and i have the autocross standings to prove it
<0> women tend to drive less aggressively, not "better"
<2> reference aforementioned autocross
<1> less aggressive, and more oblivious
<0> heh
<2> non-aggressive drivers annoy the piss out of me
<2> the on-ramp is NOT a place to ****ing stop
<1> women don't pay attention to what they are doing while driving
<0> you know, when I took a defensive driving course several years ago, the instructor told me "the most defensive way to drive is aggressively"
<1> octalpus: so true, I rear ended a chick who stopped at a green for an onramp
<0> mogi: no, they pay plenty of attention to what they are doing, it's just usually not "driving"
<1> she didn't even get out of the car, the 2 other guys in the car did, to talk to me
<0> mogi: i.e., putting on make-up
<2> once i started autocross, i became a MUCH better driver
<1> cell phones are the worst
<2> oh god, people on cell phones when they're driving need to have them shoved up their ***es
<0> the one thing I dislike about my wife's driving is her braking habbits
<2> i can't count the number of times someone has nearly hit me while i'm in the crosswalk because they're on the ****ing phone
<2> equal numbers of men and women
<0> she has to "feel" the brakes working... throw you through the windshield in other words
<1> cell phone + SUV + female == rolling deathtrap
<1> Coder7: my woman has the same problem, I don't like it when she drives my mazda
<0> heh, I should probably stop chatting about her, this is still up in my screen session at home :P
<1> I'm like, ****, easy into the brakes!
<1> bah, that's fine, let her know how you feel
<0> heh
<1> just don't be surprised if you go hungry for dinner
<0> she wonders why I grab the "oh ****" handles when she stops 3 inches from the car in front of us
<1> home time
<2> what annoys me are the people who ride their damn brakes the whole way down the mountain
<2> apparently these yuppie guys have never heard of engine braking
<2> instead they keep a foot on the brake the whole ****ing way down, slowing to like 10 mph for every curve
<2> which then makes me use my brakes more because it's not as gradual and predictable
<3> You just need to forcibly remove those people from the road.
<3> Or at least their vehicles.
<4> is here someone who's into low-power electrotechnics?
<0> ahh, my first 2TB server
<0> wonder how long it will take to fill it
<1> 2 days
<0> heh
<0> wonder how long it will take to format
<5> hey
<5> site adduser blackcat
<5> :D
<6> Coder7: also 2 days ;)
<0> phyber: let's hope not
<0> 3m44s per 500GB
<7> poor driving is a character flaw
<7> if ya'll would stop dating 'flicted chicks, you wouldn't have to bitch about their driving skills
<2> well said
<7> thanks, sweetie
<0> nous: women weren't meant to drive, they should stay in the kitchen and then we wouldn't have to bitch about their driving skills
<0> hehe, been a while since I actually deserved a kick
<7> SHEBOYGAN, Wis. Feb 9, 2007 (AP)? A truck driver distracted by his digital music player tipped his semitrailer on Thursday, spilling about 40 tons of cow intestines onto a major highway in eastern Wisconsin.
<0> haha
<0> just curious, are there any RAID configurations that improve write time?
<3> Yes.
<0> which?
<1> write performance? I doubt it
<1> unless you are one of those odd people who think raid0 is real raid
<3> Anything except RAID 1 should.
<1> far_call: how do you figure?
<1> the parity data needs to be written to drives in other raid levels
<1> and as far as improved, over a single drive, not going to happen, drives can't write faster just because they are in an array
<3> The data is distributed over the drives.
<3> Each drive only has to write 1/(n-1) of the data.
<1> plus parity
<3> Hence the (n-1)
<1> hmm
<1> yeah, you're right
<0> I thought parity still slowed things down, due to needing to calculate the parity and needing to keep the writes in-sync
<0> but, I am probably just mis-informed
<3> The calculation of parity information does require processing but in general that can occur much faster than disk writes.
<0> hrm, wikipedia has a decent write-up on raid levels
<1> yeah, and even faster if you have a real hardware raid card
<0> according to it, raid 0 can improve read and write performance, but only in certain situations
<1> yeah, but raid0 isn't raid
<0> raid 2 apparently can give some benefit, but is never used anymore
<1> the R in raid stands for redundant, and that it is not
<0> heh, true
<0> but, RAID 1 offers no write benefit, and RAID 5 supposedly suffers from having to update the distributed parity
<1> I wish Linux software raid supported raid6
<0> well, I'm out for the night
<6> RAID0 is more accuratly described as your computer having AIDs.
<8> ...
<9> hmm..
<9> I'm getting "Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC"
<9> I guess I'm in lack of a perl module or something.. could someone give me some pointers on where I find and install this module?
<1> dramz: perm -MCPAN -e shell
<10> lol.
<10> just wanted to see if you still did that.
<11> lol
<10> sorry.
<4> *sigh*
<4> under M$ hood again. bbl
<4> *sigh*
<5> io
<12> why did i turn on second irc?
<13> let me turn on my read jack-o-meter
<4> hmm
<4> good night.
<8> word up!
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