Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:56:30 -0600 | From | Bill Anderson <> | Subject | Re: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...) |
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Chris Smith wrote:
> 4. A tie between Linux and Novell -- Novell sucks but is supported for use > with this particular hardware that I'm teaching; Linux doesn't suck quite > as much, but it has no support. > > I talked to someone a few weeks ago who described a system he just sold -- > 5 minutes of down time costs this customer about $500,000. That means that > the 33 minute fsck costs about 3.3 million dollars. Do *you* want to tell > this person that fsck is tolerable?
Anybody with that kind of volume would be a fool to not have a hot failover just waiting.
FWIW, I work with Linux and HPUX on a daily basis in a production environment. Booting and fsking on the Linux box takes as long, or longer in some circumstances, as simply booting the HPUX boxes.
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