From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: Sym53C8xx Driver Hardening Date: 23 Jul 2002 11:11:15 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200207231357.PAA02632@cave.bitwizard.nl> <1027437862.31787.136.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17X1Jf-0008Ki-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:11:11 +0200 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > The high reliability people take a different view. I actually agree with > them. It isnt about 'oops didnt happen' it is about controlling the > failure case "graceful degradation" -- it's been being taught in CS curricula for *at least* twenty years. I'm disturbed by all the places that people have chosen, when faced with the unexpected, to just panic, rather than find a way to get back to some semblence of a running system. I don't want some goofy UPS hanging off a USB bus, for instance, to take down a critical storage server.