Oh ... The birthday paradox as applied to disk failures. That had never occurred to me before, but it should have done!
Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Apr 2017, at 3:36 pm, Peter St. John <peter.st.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > just a friendly reminder that while the probability of a particular > coincidence might be very low, the probability that there will be **some** > coincidence is very high. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
