[tech] A question of File System

[Simon Fryer]

Evening 

> A while ago Ian McKellar tapped:

> 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. 

They say a poor workman blames his tools. However, having the right, high 
quality tools makes a huge difference, in both time and level of frustration. 

> 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.

Oh, this is bad. And this makes it onto production platforms how exactly??? 
I am kinda afraid now. 

Simon

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