[tech] A question of File System

Ian McKellar ian at mckellar.org
Tue Apr 23 02:47:06 WST 2002


On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 11:22, Simon Fryer wrote:
> 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. 

Of course, but if you don't give the admins some basic tools like decent
filesystems theres not a lot they can do. Solaris also has kooky
behaviour on IDE whereby a single read error will bring the machine down
rather than marking the block and alerting a sysadmin.

Ian
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