Posts by Eric 23 7 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Oct 2016
I've encountered far more problems with hw drivers on windows than on any other OS.
Also, in the case of hw issues, that could be a problem for any OS. Things fail. Disks and DIMMs being the most common, but CPUs, and adapter cards fail. Heck, even hardware RAID arrays go down. I've even had networking cards, and network ports on the server motherboard fail.
Ran into the same issue when trying to report a few annoying telemarketers. Despite it all being handled by a webserver to submit the complaint, we get a nice little splash page saying the site is down due to the shutdown.
I'm fairly sure the telemarketers, robocallers, and scammers are aware as the number of these annoying calls has increased. Luckily my phone provider adds "SPAM?" to the callerid for most of them.
Tape is fairly reliable, and has a nice side effect of being very power efficient.
When I first think of HSM, SamFS comes to mind as I used to work in a shop which used it, and it worked really well. I think Sun released it as open source years back, and no clue of it's current status.
I have no experience in it, but there's also the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) which sounded promising.
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