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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by L-four on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:15AM (#40489703)
Airline booking numbers used to just be the sector number of your booking record on the mainframes HDD.
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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by rrr_oh_man on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:42AM (#40489879)
That’s why they were constantly recycled?
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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by switch007 on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:26AM (#40489764)
My jaw just hit the floor. What a fascinating fact!
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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by mauriciolange on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:43AM (#40489880)
source?
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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by devsda on Monday May 27, 2024 @10:33AM (#40491090)
This is such a simple scheme.

I wonder how they dealt with common storage issues like backups and disks having bad sectors.

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Re:Big data is dead (2023) by giantrobot on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:00PM (#40492555)
They're likely record based formatting rather than file based. At the high level the code is just asking for a record number from a data set. The data set is managed including redundancy/ECC by the hardware of that storage device.
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