On 28 Jun 1999, Chris Adams wrote:
> >
> >Um, can you say, UPS, and "maintainence"? If proper amounts of both are
> >given, the chances of an fsck are almost NONE, in my experience and that
> >of *MY* clients. I don't know about anyone else...
>
> Crashes happen. RAM fails, CPUs fail, etc. I don't know about
> "maintainence", but maintenance doesn't fix hardware failures, and there
> is no way to work around a CPU failure under Linux. ECC RAM can help
> protect you from failures there, and you can do RAID for disks and have
> redundant power supplies hooked up to multiple UPSs, reducing your
> chances of failure, but you cannot reduce the chance to zero.
Yes, but today's technologies last substantially longer than those of
years past. If you maintain it, failures *are* less. Part of
maintainence is bringing systems down for cleaning (yes, I said cleaning)
because dust acts as a blanket and does get into computers, and therefore
is the cause of many failures...
But *STILL*... even w/o cleaning, an abused system can reliably run for at
least 2 years, and that was back in 386 days. With advancements in
technology, I'm sure that it's grown to longer than that.
>
> "almost NONE" is not never and doesn't cut it. Like you said, you don't
> know about anyone else.
>
99.9999% doesn't cut it? Damn... I'd hate to be working with you...
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