On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:22:20PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:29:54AM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > > To put it slightly more strongly: as far as I'm concerned ext2 is not a
> > > serious fs if you really care about handling power failures and other such
> > > fun things.
> >
> > I'm not sure I've ever really understood this position. In cases where
> > data integrity is vital to retain, there is no excuse for not using
> > machines with multiple power supplies, each fed from independent, clean
> > power sources, with multiple fans, running a stable, tested OS release.
>
> I take it you never have had anyone hit the Big Red Button, a fire,
> a flood, or a random panic, a clueless tech, or a hardware failure?
> I see one of my machines go down along these lines every six weeks or so. A
> hosed filesystem would (really!) ruin my day.
Actually, no, at least not in the past six years I've been working
with carriers and high-spec datacentres.
But I take your point :)
Joe
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