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:) This made my day. Were you based in LA at the time? I’m out in LA now and love hearing stories like this from colleagues who’ve done engineering work in the
by jameshush 6y ago
:) This made my day. Were you based in LA at the time? I’m out in LA now and love hearing stories like this from colleagues who’ve done engineering work in the entertainment industry.
- mprovost 6y agoYes, Burbank. Here's another one - Solaris had a 2GB file size limit (this was before ZFS). Which isn't as crazy as it sounds now - hard drives were 9GB at the time. So ordinarily this wasn't a problem, but when the first Harry Potter movie came out, harrypotter.com (which was being served off the same server as spacejam.com) was the most popular website on the internet and the web server log would hit the 2GB limit every couple hours and we would have to frantically move it somewhere and restart the process.
- oaiey 6y agoAnd somewhere was /dev/null ?
- mprovost 6y agoMost likely the main Oracle server which had a disk array attached. These days it's easy to forget how tricky it could be to get basic things like this working. rsync was in its infancy and I doubt we were using it. As I recall most servers didn't have ssh installed; telnet was standard. Lots of tar piped over rsh to get files from A to B.
- ciceryadam 6y ago7-8 years ago I've encountered a full-on rsh internal network in a fairly big datacenter. No rsync, rcp. It turned out that the sysadmins were too lazy to set up ssh keys on all the servers, and their manager was skilled at deflecting issues.
- 101008 6y agoHello, I run a monthly magazine about Harry Potter, could I interview you about this? Any email address where I could write to you? Thanks!
- mprovost 6y agoSure, username at termcap.net