Re: fsck is dead

Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@lina.inka.de)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 00:43:11 +0200


In article <199906292321.TAA09459@adder.cs.Virginia.EDU> you wrote:
> HA is half of the key. Fast fsck is the other half. You can't avoid
> the fact that the OS scribbling on your dual-ported disks is a single
> point of failure. After that, do you really want to bring up a backup
> computer without an fsck?

I will avoid the SPOF... database mirrors, content replication, coda fs or
cache fs comes to mind. Of course this cant be done all the time and not
with linux, but anyway, its a solution you generally ned to use if you have
expensive doowntimes.

Greetings
Bernd

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