PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000

Re:PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000 by tannhaeuser on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:48AM (#23346644)

Yet I managed to trash ODM on our RS/6000 cluster in 1992 or so, so that the metadata AIX had was inconsistent with the quorum of binary metadata stored on special partition tables on disks. Had to low-level format the disks and start over (the 857MB SCSI disks about as expensive as a compact car).

What's perhaps unknown to many is that the Linux volume manager was/is a straight clone of AIX's, with IBM terminology like logical volumes, physical volumes, and so on (the terminology itself being an extension of IBM's naming scheme on z/OS aka MVS, eg "logical/physical partition" for VMs with reserved channel bandwidth etc). Whereas FreeBSD's vinum was a clone of Veritas (in vinum veritas).

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Re:PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000 by Y_Y on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:15AM (#23347912)

Does FreeBSD still not include support for ablatives of second-declension neuter nouns? You surely want "vīnō" there.

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Re:PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000 by tannhaeuser on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:06AM (#23348197)

:) ah, spotted the Latin teacher! yeah no it was entirely my fault to mis-/non-decline vinum; though "in vinum" (in + accusative) actually has a valid use as well and not just in medieval Latin, like in "put the truth into the wine" which actually is as good a word-play for vinum the volume manager as "in vino veritas"

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