On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:34 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:25:50AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Well, I hope so, but the smiley isn't on the R/R line. I just don't > > want newbies searching the list archives to be left with the impression > > that Debian requires R/R (Reformat/Reinstall) to fix simple glitches. > > Do you think Google or Hotmail spend time farfing around trying to fix > broken boxes? Or do you think they reimage? Google doesn't even do anything. They just cycle out machines based on time installed. The rack gets moved to the disassemble area, rack/cabinets get re-used. The computers are palletized, wrapped and shipped to computer recyclers. Hotmail, does a similar thing with their racks, except they shove the whole thing out the door to the recyclers. These machines are all managed with profile management software. If an error shows up, the control center notifies the machine to reboot and PXE. Fixing the settings or imaging or failing completely. The failed machine are left in-place until removal (hotmail) or disassembly (google). Everything is logged as far as failures and automated maintenance. Google and Hotmail both have extensive hardware failure databases that the hardware manufacturers are "dieing" to get, paying muchos dollars for them. Is a serious money maker for both. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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