From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sftf Subject: Re[2]: Some very basic questions Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:45:51 +0600 Message-ID: <255283383.20081028094551@mail.ru> References: <11a001c93453$7ec465a0$0a00a8c0@ALDI2> <20081027164352.f7e39d1e.skraw@ithnet.com> Reply-To: sftf Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Stephan von Krawczynski , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081027164352.f7e39d1e.skraw@ithnet.com> List-ID: >> In my opinon, the whole thing comes up from the idea of using cheap hardware >> and out-of-the-box configurations to keep promises of reliability and >> availability which are not realistic. There is a reason why there are more >> expensive HDDs, RAIDs, SANs with volume mirroring, multipathing and so on. >> Simply ignoring the fact that you have to use the proper tools to address >> specific problems and pray to the toothfairy to put a >> solve-all-my-problems-fs under your pillow is no solution. I'd rather have a >> solid fs with deterministic behavior and some state-of-the-art features. SvK> Well, sorry to say, but I begin to sound a bit like Joseph Stiglitz SvK> trying to explain why neoliberalism does not work out. SvK> Please accept that this world is full of failure of all kinds. If you deny SvK> that all your models and ideas will only be failures, too. SvK> All I am saying is that we should accept that dead sectors, braindead SvK> firmware-programmers, production in jungle-environment, transportation in SvK> rough areas, high temperatures, high humidity, harddisks that have no disks SvK> and so on are facts of live. And only a childs answer can be : "oops" SvK> (sorry could not resist this one ;-) +1000 Systems should survive and function or it's dead - like in nature.