[Fwd: [Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup]

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 15:51 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> Do you have inside information to when drives >2TB will 
> be affordable to the average person or even available?

Oh?  So we're talking about the average person again right?  Guess what,
grub works for the average person.  The unaverage can spend their
unaverage time to source lilo into the distro and make it their boot
loader.  The rest of the average world can continue using GRUB and
benefit from the developer time freed up from dealing with the crap pile
that Lilo has become.

> That argument is just nuts. Drive prices will have to 
> drop to 10% of what they are now per GB, and as far as 
> I know there aren't any commonly available .5TB drives 
> yet. It will likely be a couple years before a 2TB 
> drive will be commonly available.

I'm not speaking of a single drive, I'm speaking of RAID arrays.  We
sell on average 4 machines a week that are capable of a > 2TB block
device.  Thats a lot of systems.  WAY more that systems we sell with
onboard pata, onboard sata, add on pata and add on sata....  In fact,
we've NEVER sold one of those.

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