[tech] A question of File System

David Manchester mustang at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Tue Apr 23 13:30:19 WST 2002


On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:01:15PM +0800, Simon Fryer wrote:
> 
> > A while ago Ian McKellar tapped:
> 
> 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. 

Two things to consider:

Ian's remark is a non-sequiteur, in so much as if that behaviour did
actually occur, there'd be patches or the hardware would be replaced
under warranty if that was where the problem lied.
The original Ultra 5s had 4GB Seagates that absolutely sucked dead
dromedary balls in terms of performance and happy ATA compliance.

IDE sucks: if you care about "production platform" quality, why are
you using IDE ?

Checking your linux reality,
D.
-- 
" I don't get mad.... I get stabby. "
- William "Fat Tony" Williams.


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