Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.
Mikulas Patocka (mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:32:56 +0200 (CEST)
> Hi!
>
> > I don't think it is really so important. If system crashes, something is
> > bad anyway, and you should cure the causation (fix bugs), not the
> > consequence (do quick recovery).
> > Power fault is another case, but I think it really doesn't matter if
> > system is down for 3 hours because of power fault or 3 hours and 10
> > minutes because of power fault and fsck.
>
> Or 3 hours of power fault and 3 hours of fsck... Which is exactly what
> happens on ~100Gig disks.
If you have enough money to buy 100G disk, you have certainly enough money
to buy UPS :-)
Mikulas Patocka
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