At Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:23:33 -0500, Donald Allen <donaldcallen%gmail.com@localhost> wrote: Subject: Re: Lost file-system story > > How can you possibly say such a thing and hope to be taken seriously? > What you just said means that P(survival) = .999 is the same as > P(survival) = 0. > > There are a LOT of situations (e.g., mine) where P(survival) = .999 > would be very acceptable and P(survival) = 0 would not. The manual page must not give probabilities or even speak of possiblities. So, as-is you have been warned properly by the manual page. For planning purposes you _must_ expect that your filesystem will be damaged beyond repair after a crash and that you will have to use "newfs" and restore to recover. Learn these expectations well and you will be happier in the long run. Fail to learn them and you have no recourse but to wallow in your own sorrows. I.e. you can't come to the mailing list and say that you expected something better just because you say you can get something better from something else entirely different. You have false expectations based on your experiences with entirely foreign environments. Maybe Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again, sometimes, but even if you have all the King's horses and all the King's men on call to respond to a disaster at a moment's notice, you must not expect that you can have the egg put back together successfully, even just once, even if it does look like just a minor crack this time. -- Greg A. Woods Planix, Inc. <woods%planix.com@localhost> +1 250 762-7675 http://www.planix.com/
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