Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:38:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael B. Trausch" <> | Subject | Re: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...) |
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On 28 Jun 1999, Chris Adams wrote: > > > >Um, can you say, UPS, and "maintainence"? If proper amounts of both are > >given, the chances of an fsck are almost NONE, in my experience and that > >of *MY* clients. I don't know about anyone else... > > Crashes happen. RAM fails, CPUs fail, etc. I don't know about > "maintainence", but maintenance doesn't fix hardware failures, and there > is no way to work around a CPU failure under Linux. ECC RAM can help > protect you from failures there, and you can do RAID for disks and have > redundant power supplies hooked up to multiple UPSs, reducing your > chances of failure, but you cannot reduce the chance to zero.
Yes, but today's technologies last substantially longer than those of years past. If you maintain it, failures *are* less. Part of maintainence is bringing systems down for cleaning (yes, I said cleaning) because dust acts as a blanket and does get into computers, and therefore is the cause of many failures...
But *STILL*... even w/o cleaning, an abused system can reliably run for at least 2 years, and that was back in 386 days. With advancements in technology, I'm sure that it's grown to longer than that.
> > "almost NONE" is not never and doesn't cut it. Like you said, you don't > know about anyone else. >
99.9999% doesn't cut it? Damn... I'd hate to be working with you...
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