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    SubjectRe: fsck is dead (was: Some very thought-provoking ...)
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    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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