Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:29:03 +0200


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.

Pavel

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