Re: Closest to Debian
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:02, cfm@maine.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:41:52PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > That's only an issue if the first drive dies and at the same time
> > something forces a system reboot. What's the chance of those two things
> > happening at the same time while not rendering the machine totally
> > unusable (IE dead motherboard or something equally serious)?
>
> High, because it's been 250 days since you last rebooted and the drive
> has been self-lubricating with sintered spindle.
So you're suggesting that the drive is near to death and then you have a
power failure which finally kills it?
It's a possibility, but I've seen ~20 drives die while in use, and 1 drive
die while the power was off. So I don't think it's that likely.
You just have to balance the percieved risk vs the price. For most of my
machines software RAID is the best option. If you have more money and less
tolerance of such risks then you may choose differently.
> Or maybe you've updated
> your boot scripts or lilo <cough> without rebooting in the past year or
> so.
If you have a lilo configuration problem or any one of a hundred different
potential problems in the boot sequence then nothing will save you.
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