Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> writes: > On 17/05/13 10:13, Ghiora Drori wrote: > > https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/#highlights > Quote: "Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual > durability of 99.999999999% " > > If this is not good enough for you too bad. > > > When you see someone, anyone, saying such a thing, run. As fast and as > far as you can. > > This level of assurance is called "nine nines"(henceforth 9*9). It > amounts to one thousandth of a second of downtime a year.
I think you are misreading the claim, Shachar. It is not about availablity, it is about "durability". I read it as a measure of the probability that your data will not be lost before a year passes. Disclaimer: I have never used the service and th above is my "common sense and reading comprehension" take on what is written in the above website. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
