On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:48:39PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:47:01PM +0100, Juri Haberland wrote:
>
> > IMHO in this case it makes no difference if you have chattr +S or not as
> > the drive may eat your mails regardless of -osync, fsync() or
> > whatever...
> >
> > Actually, if you rely on your data in general one should turn off the
> > disk write cache - OTOH I doubt that many people have to worry about
> > this. Instead they should use a UPS!
>
> You wouldn't believe how many outages we had at the Bundestag DUE TO
> the UPS!

My favorite is when the air conditioner goes out, and the first thing to
overheat and fail is the big, expensive UPS backing up the whole server
room.

Sun fiber cards (gbic's actually) don't like 130+ degree heat :(

Don't count on your UPS - and keep your backups offsite, the tapes don't
like that kind of heat either :(

Now I'm ranting.

-- 
Nate
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA
encryption.  -Keith Bostic  
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