Re: fsck is dead

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
02 Jul 1999 21:35:00 +0200


cd_smith@ou.edu (Chris Smith) wrote on 27.06.99 in <199906280407.AAA00479@hpdmraaa.compuserve.com>:

> I talked to someone a few weeks ago who described a system he just sold --
> 5 minutes of down time costs this customer about $500,000. That means that
> the 33 minute fsck costs about 3.3 million dollars. Do *you* want to tell
> this person that fsck is tolerable?

How many systems of this type are there in the world? $52 billion per year
from *one* system? Can't be all that many.

In any case, for a yearly $52 billion dollar made by one system, yes, 3.3
million dollars is trivial. Peanuts. Toy money. Down in the noise.

Or, to put it another way, 0.00004 %.

Yes, 33 minutes fsck *is* tolerable in that situation if that person isn't
insane.

MfG Kai

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