[tech] A question of File System

[Simon Fryer]

Morning

> A while ago Ian McKellar tapped:

> While we're talking about journalling its pretty funny when the ops guys
> here have to drive over to the colo to fsck a machine that went down.
> *sigh* Solaris and BSD - why would anyone run these in production? ;-)

Because any system (no matter which OS) is only ever as good as the people
that admin it, and, to a certain extent, the quality of the hardware. 

Simon

Who, from that remark, should experiance machines going down all the time! 

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