From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9 From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077116509.7471.246.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:01:50 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ea24ccc2-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > well I don't see that kind of stuff here on 1000s of linux nodes. That > sort of thing can usually be tracked to marginal hardware at least in my > experience. I'd love to believe that, but modern h/w w/ECC RAM tends to militate against the idea. It's just possible that it's a dodgy IDE disk, but I would have thought that, given current bit densities, the possibility of getting exactly 4 bytes on a disk visibly corrupted would be pretty small ... > There are a lot of things to dislike about Linux, but at least on systems > I have run, reliability is not one of them. Well, I suspect that the application load etc., may just possibly be an influence here:-). Don't get me wrong: I'm not knocking the reliability: it's the overall complexity which means problems like this are hard to isolate. Dave.