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SubjectRe: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...)
Bill Anderson wrote:

> 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.

If 5 minutes downtime looses 1/2 million dollars of business, this one computer
is relied upon for about 52.5 billion dollars of business per annum. Quite
something, eh? Perhaps the 1/2 million per 5 minutes is a little exaggeration,
or perhaps they need a damn good HA solution.

Steve



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