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From: Dirk Schenkewitz <Dirk.Schenkewitz@interface-ag.com>
Subject: Re: Corrupted/unreadable journal: reiser vs. ext3
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:30:28 +0100
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Sam Vilain  <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:08, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> > ...
> > The M in MTBF is Mean, not Maximum or Minimum.  For every disk that
> > lasts 10 years or more, there's an equal and opposite disk that dies
> > within a few minutes.
> 
> It actually stands for Meaningless, I'm sure :-)  Vendors should be 
> required to state this figure in terms of the number of unit failures 
> they experienced running X units for T amount of time.

It is not? I thoght it was just that: have 100 drives running for a year,
one failes, gives you a MTBF of 100 years per drive. No?

have fun
	dirk
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