Re: Crashed hard disk - Jehad

[Pichai Asokan <pasokan@xxxxxxx>]

BGanesh wrote:

> Hi Oommen,
>
> OT> To sum up, unless there is a hardware failure, rarely will Linux crash
> OT> fully, if properly configured/installed. This is not the case with other
> OT> OSs.
>
> There you go, making blanket statements. "Other OSes" ??! Irix
> doesn't. BeOS doesn't. Windows2000 doesn't. It helps to be specific.
> I've seen corruption occur on Win95, once. Win98, is pretty stable
> (strictly from the Win95 standpoint) disk-wise... I have an NT4 box
> that has /never/ crashed in since I bought it a year ago. Unless there
> is a h/w failure, rarely/never do any of these fail (Win9x excluded).
> Linux is good and all that sort of thing, but statements like these
> are what prompt changes to the subject line :)
>
> Cheers
> BGa
>
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Agreed. Chennaionlines server was WinNT - plain vanilla no name - machine, that
stayed up for
three years with 3 outages - two no idea why. one for a planned memory upgrade.

Now we have a Dell Poweredge for nearly 7 months ; no downtime.
P Asokan

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