I script and test as well. But sometimes you can't think of every
possible problem.
My point wasn't to have a contest of who had worse problems or who had
a problem that the other didn't.
merely that sometimes hardware mirroring is not the be-all/end-all
solution.
We all could swap war stories for hours. But I need a beer before I
start that, that's thirsty work :)
- Stephen Lee <slee_at_dollar.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > have you NEVER accidentally, at 3AM, after having been woken from a
> > sound sleep to a crisis that needs to be fixed RIGHT NOW,
> > made a typo?
> >
>
> Actually no. But we usually script our actions and test the scripts
> prior
> to doing anything in production. As a sys admin, I've restored
> enough
> casualties of the "rm -rf *" command to be rather careful about it
> myself.
>
> > Um, I have.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had. But I could turn this around too and
> give an
> example of when duplexing the redos failed to save me. One so-called
> patch
> that Compaq released for Tru64 actually caused disk writes to be
> unreliable
> (OH MY GOD!!). And we wound up with a G.D. mess in spite of the
> redos being
> duplexed all nice and official.
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