On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> > And in both cases, two different files are more robust than a single
> > file. It's the same story as with everything depending on libc at runtime
> > (or any other single point of failure).
> >
> > If you don't agree that a single point of failure makes things less safe
> > I'm sure NASA would be interested in hearing about your deductive
> > skills. :-)
> 
> That's absurd. Our stuff doesn't even have to fly (I work for the
> U.S.P.S, a.k.a "The Post Office"), and every moderately critical
> system has duplicates that we can clone drives from, if not clean
> install procedures.

This whole discussion is absurd.

> I was initially against this change, but your increasingly desperate
> arguments have convinced me to take the other side. Give it up already.

Sorry. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned libc here. But check the topic,
will you?

I went into this argument just on the statement that people considered a
crunchgenen /rescue to be just as safe as the tools in /bin and /sbin.
That was all that I reacted to, and if people want to disagree with me on
that one, I find no problems at all in pointing out that they are wrong.

I'm actually amazed that people don't just accept this fact. If we imagine
the disk, I can point at any number of disk blocks which can become
corrupt and I'll still be able to repair the system.
(Admittedly there are *some* disk blocks that are vital, but not every
disk block is).
If you have a crunchgenned /rescue, any broken block will stop you, no
matter which one.

How can people claim that it's just as robust is beyond me. The arguments
borders on total silliness.

As for the discussion about making everything shared, I've already given
up on that one. It will happen. I don't care.

I'll see if I can build my VAX systems totally static, if you really want
to know, and see what performance gains I get.
As for my PC, I'll probably let it follow the general flow of development,
since I have a much easier time fixing things on that machine (I have a CD
with NetBSD on that I can boot from).

	Johnny

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