If you are going to rip people apart, you have at least two syntax errors:

log(n)*COMPARRISON_COST + log(n)*MEMORY_ACCESS_COST ^^here^^ log(n)*COMPARRISON_COST + log(n)*MEMORY_ACCESS_COST_MAX ^^and_here^^ CONSTANT*log(n)

What operation should replace ^^here^^ and ^^and_here^^ ?

Also, you don't know how to spell COMPARISON.

Remember, you seem to think everyone else is an idiot, so you must be both precise and accurate lest you will be misunderstood.

Not that I would be picking sides here, but at least Estanislao Martínez appeared to be trying to have an scholarly discussion. Politeness goes along way. Not everyone is as smart as the next guy, but if they are trying then they at least deserve some decency.

If everyone just googled everything, there would be no ask slashdot.

Yes, 32.5TB.

Can you elaborate on how LVM gets volume offsets "wrong" and it's impact on RAID performance? I've never heard of that before. Not saying you're wrong, it's just news to me.

Also, IIRC Solaris still has a 2 in front of it. Ie, Solaris 10 is really Solaris 2.10, and is simultaneously SunOS 5.10. They have retarded naming conventions. Oh well, Oracle can only fsck it up further...

ZFS does rock btw, we've got about 80-90TB (guesstimate) spinning with ZFS right now. Our thumper has 32.5GB alone, and another HP box running x86 Solaris has 45.3TB. There's others, but not as big as those two. ZFS really does make it a breeze to manage that much storage.

I was picturing bash/sed/awk/whatever scripts replacing his current batch scripts. Distributing several unmodified GPL binaries, so long as the source is also available, is perfectly acceptable as I understand it...

Also, if this is software that is not going outside your organization, then I don't think you have to worry about it at all...

must be nostalgic for you or something...

If it were me, I would put together what you need to work with Cygwin, then it could be cross platform. You could even ship a copy of cygwin.dll and any binaries you need, like bash, netcat, or what have you. I prefer Unix apparently.

is slashdotted.

BitterOak's Sig:
"If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?"

No, You can be modded up for being a Unix Sysadmin, Unix Developer, or M$ hater. All of the others you mention are downward.

IP != TCP

Man, I cannot wait for IPv6 already. I'm ready for the pain. It'll be worth it.

You may not be worth this reply, however, I will try to overcome my Unixism.

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

I don't mean to quote and sound all guru-ish, however, this particular quote has a deep meaning with regard to this discussion.

"Shits tough, you have to be tough too." - I think I invented that one.

Basically, if you can't swim then get out of the water, or learn to swim; those are your only choices.

Stuff like networking is zen, it's just bits on a wire. On the other hand, it can be hard. Waah.