On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > 100% uptime for 20 years? > > So what makes OpenVMS so much more stable than Unix? What is the difference?
Software reliability studies show that the more reliable software is old software that hasn't changed :-) On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:42 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm suggesting that the standard for the interface ought to be > sufficiently standardized and well-enough documented that things meeting > it just work, in the way that desktop motherboards and disk drives "just > work", i.e. well enough for nearly everybody. I understand why people > pushing the limits would need custom-tuned hardware, but I don't think the > middle of the market should need it. Every mobo and disk I own has quirks. The only time things settle down to a widely accepted norm is when innovation stops. For example, recently the SATA TRIM command has received a lot of press. Next quarter, it will be some other feature on the buzzword list. > The controllers shouldn't be full of quirks; companies that routinely make > them that way need to clean up their act or be driven out of the market. > Same for the drives. I think there are only about 5 HDD companies (Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba) and 3 controller companies today (LSI, Marvell, Intel). The remainder are in the process of getting out of the business or being bought. Interesting history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
