Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Jul 1999 05:09:51 +0000 | From | Steve Underwood <> | Subject | Re: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...) |
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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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