David G. Mackay wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:07 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
There was a point in mid-FC5 where an update kernel would not boot on an
IBM Xseries 225 (fairly mainstream dual-xeon boxes, I thought) without
doing a motherboard bios update - after which the older kernels wouldn't
boot. And of course there were no warnings about this or much of a
reason to expect it to work after doing the bios flash either. And
there have been several updates that failed to boot on popular Dell and
IBM MPT scsi controllers - even one late into FC6 which was otherwise
pretty stable.
I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen. I've experienced a few. The
original post was directed to a fellow who wants to run a home server on
The original post was by valent.turkovic and actually referred to a
document written by someone who'd decided Fedora was a poor choice for a
server, and invited comment.
his desktop. And, I haven't seen anything yet that would cause more
than a few minutes downtime while switching to the backup partition
after noticing the problem.
Now, if we're talking a system that's handling financial transactions
that has to be available 24/7, then it's another situation entirely.
I've been in shops like that, and am aware of the practices necessary to
sustain that. I don't, however, need a disaster recovery plan with a
hot backup site for my video and music collection.
I would think that a home Linux user running a server controlling his
Internet connexion and maybe providing mail and http caching is fairly
common. While maybe not life-threatening, its sudden lack might be
pretty inconvenient.
_Mine_ is running CentOS4 and is on a UPS (the UPS because used good
ones can be bought pretty cheaply at auction).
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Cheers
John
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