On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Greg A. Woods <wo...@planix.ca> wrote: > At Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:23:33 -0500, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Subject: Re: Lost file-system story >> >> How can you possibly say such a thing and hope to be taken seriously? >> What you just said means that P(survival) = .999 is the same as >> P(survival) = 0. >> >> There are a LOT of situations (e.g., mine) where P(survival) = .999 >> would be very acceptable and P(survival) = 0 would not. > > The manual page must not give probabilities or even speak of > possiblities.
Even when the process the man page is describing is non-deterministic? So you want man pages that lie? > > So, as-is you have been warned properly by the manual page. > > For planning purposes you _must_ expect that your filesystem will be > damaged beyond repair after a crash and that you will have to use > "newfs" and restore to recover. Learn these expectations well and you > will be happier in the long run. Fail to learn them and you have no > recourse but to wallow in your own sorrows. I.e. you can't come to the > mailing list and say that you expected something better just because you > say you can get something better from something else entirely different. > You have false expectations based on your experiences with entirely > foreign environments. > > Maybe Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again, sometimes, but even > if you have all the King's horses and all the King's men on call to > respond to a disaster at a moment's notice, you must not expect that you > can have the egg put back together successfully, even just once, even if > it does look like just a minor crack this time. You seem to have some pre-conceived and incorrect notions, together with a don't-confuse-me-with-the-facts attitude. You've hit the Daily Double. You spoke about "happier in the long run" above. I'd suggest trying to give more weight to reading/input and less to writing/output, and you'll most likely be happier in the long run. No guarantees, of course. /Don > > -- > Greg A. Woods > Planix, Inc. > > <wo...@planix.com> +1 250 762-7675 http://www.planix.com/
