Aaron Stellman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 08:19:11AM +0200, Markus Hennecke wrote:
> > Aaron Stellman schrieb:
> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:54:11AM +0200, Markus Hennecke wrote:
> >>> Generalization is always false.
> >>> I killed a 1GB SanDisk CF Card because of excessive logging of
> >>> OpenVPN
> >> And what makes you so sure that this was exact cause? Another
> >> generalization.
> >
> > The inode holding the log files metadata was no longer
> writeable. What
> > else would cause that?
> I don't know what the cause is, and there is no point
> speculating. what
> matters is that you made a conclusion based on sample of
> grand total of
> 1 case -- that's a pretty bad generalization.
> Then you instantiate your previous generalization and accuse
> others of not
> stress testing enough.
>
A sample size of one is quite sufficient in a number of cases:
banging on a jar of nitroglycerin.
(many) repetitive writes to one spot on the disk.
The problem is that that one needs to be the "right" one.
