[Gllug] MS & LSE ROFL!

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 03:38:03PM +0000, general_email wrote:
> 
> The T-mobile sidekick fiasco was due to an MS powered SAN upgrade
> failure. It seems like it's not uncommon for large SANs not to be backed
> up these days!

There's no excuse for that.  Databases offer replication facilities, SAN
storage arrays have mirroring and snapshot features.  One of the most
coommon reasons, though, why large SANs are not always backed up is that
they are being used (quite wrongly) to support massive, monolithic
filesystems which are so huge that they can't be backed up coherently.
There's *absolutely* no excuse for that - very poor application design
if you require a single filesystem to support it.  No need, when there
are plenty of distributed storage systems to choose from (or, if you
needs are uncomplicated, use a simple web-based service).

-- 
Bruce

The ice-caps are melting, tra-la-la-la.  All the world is drowning,
tra-la-la-la-la.  -- Tiny Tim.
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