On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:10:32PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:23:33 -0500, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> > 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.
Oh really, Greg? I suppose you can believe that if you want to, while the rest of us can continue to live in the real world where knowing things like that is actually useful. > 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. Donald, don't listen to Greg. Just in case it needs to be repeated, you're not the only one that thinks it is reasonable to expect a non-0 probability that things will be recovereable, even if something goes wrong. eric