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- From: dpayton@qcinet.Gwinnett.COM (Doug Payton)
- Subject: Re: Summary: My first root filesystem corruption. :-(
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.161537.23315@qcinet.Gwinnett.COM>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:15:37 GMT
- References: <Bwr5ts.GBJ@spock.dis.cccd.edu> <Bx42wH.Aw8@spock.dis.cccd.edu> <Bx9Ep7.4D7@fig.citib.com>
- Organization: Quality Consultants, Inc.
- Keywords: pathetic unix integrity unsuitable mission-critical
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- In article <Bx9Ep7.4D7@fig.citib.com> gjb@fig.citib.com (Greg Brail) writes:
- >In article <Bx42wH.Aw8@spock.dis.cccd.edu> markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) writes:
- >>Many respondents felt I was whining unjustifiably at having a single case of
- >>corruption in a year. I still think it's a high frequency, based on my
- >>personal experience. In 10 years of IBM VSAM administration, I had 1 case of
- >>corruption. In 10 years of MPE/V administration, I had 1 case of corruption.
- >>In 3 years of MPE/XL administration, I've had _no_ cases of corruption. And in
- >>just 1 year of HPUX administration, I've had 1 case of corruption. Based on
- >>this personal experience, I still feel that 1 per year is high, IMHO.
- >
- >Of course this is high, which is why many database systems use a raw
- >disk partition on which to store their data rather than a file in the
- >UNIX filesystem. Others, like Ingres, can use a raw partition for the
- .
- .
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- >IMHO (I always wanted to use that acronym), you should put any mission-
- >critical, recoverable data on a raw partition if your database or whatever
- .
- .
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- >Sadly, this doesn't do you any good for the non-database stuff on your
- >machine. If this is a problem, consider some of the alternatives discussed
- >earlier, like a UPS.
-
- ...or using MPE instead. Sorry, I just had to :-), but it does sound
- funny when someone suggests a flimsy foundation with spit and bailing
- wire mods, instead of suggesting a firmer foundation. I've been 'doing'
- Unix for a little over a year now, and I've been reading Usenet since
- about February. I was strictly HP3000 / MPE before that. Granted, I'm
- still a neophyte when it comes to talking Unix, but this -still- sounds
- rather humorus to me.
-
- I've heard it expounded "A Unix guru picks the best tool for the job."
- Is it possible the best tool for some jobs may be another OS?
- --
- Doug Payton -- Internet: dpayton@qcinet.gwinnett.com
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