From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756087AbYCMTil (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:38:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752167AbYCMTid (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:38:33 -0400 Received: from phunq.net ([64.81.85.152]:36389 "EHLO moonbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752000AbYCMTid (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:38:33 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: ric@emc.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:38:15 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Lars Marowsky-Bree , Alan Cox , Grzegorz Kulewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200803092346.17556.phillips@phunq.net> <200803131202.48135.phillips@phunq.net> <47D97C9E.303@emc.com> In-Reply-To: <47D97C9E.303@emc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803131238.16672.phillips@phunq.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 13 March 2008 12:12, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > Right, so Linux has gotten to the point where it competes with purpose- > > built embedded software in reliability. Not quite there, but close > > enough for mission-critical. > > This is our case, but we have been working for quite a while to enhance > the reliability of the io stack & file systems. It also helps to be very > careful to select hardware components with mature, open source & > natively integrated drivers ;-) A word to the wise indeed. Well I would never suggest that we can rest on our laurels as far as Linux reliability in concerned, only that it is already very reliable or you certainly would not ship products based on it. Daniel