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From: torvalds@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 13 Jul 1996 09:40:45 +0300
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In article <31E53C2B.41C67EA6@inuxs.att.com>,
John S. Dyson <dyson@inuxs.att.com> wrote:
> 
>Y'know, I usually don't care how big my D$$K is until someone starts
>making theirs look bigger than it really is...

Nyaah nyaah, I have a 2GB D$$K in my home machine. AND I modified df to
actually print out numbers that are twice as large, so it _looks_ like I
have a 4GB D$$K. So there!

Now somebody is going to tell me they have a 20GB RAID D$$K that does
mirroring and striping in hardware. Damn, that's unfair,

		Linus