Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:49:02PM -0400, Justin Wells wrote:
> I had lost / and /usr, but not /local or /u which were on the other
> IDE cable, which was still connected. I was able to keep it going because
> most programs were already linked and loaded, and critical applications
> like /bin/sh and /bin/cp had been recently used and so could still be
> loaded out of the disk cache--and they were statically linked, so
> they worked (any attempt to "ls /" would block permanently though,
> locking that tty so that it was permanently unusable).
You are running critical servers on IDE? With no failover?
No redundant hot-swappable server? To You, Sir, I say "Bah!"
Don't blame Debian for your lack of design capability.
Now let's forget the troll and fix the damn distribution.
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