Re: fsck is dead

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
02 Jul 1999 21:25:00 +0200


matti.aarnio@sonera.fi (Matti Aarnio) wrote on 27.06.99 in <19990627000234.K4630@mea.tmt.tele.fi>:

> 0.998 availability is what ftp.funet.fi has achieved

> For a system like that there is *never* time when
> downtime is acceptable.

Most people would probably think that for a service like that, downtimes
are certainly acceptable.

>People fetching data are
> about at all times; from different parts of the world
> at different times, of course.

But services like that are by-the-minute vital to only very, very few of
those people.

MfG Kai

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