| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com |
| Cc: | Jan-Ivar Mellingen <jan-ivar(dot)mellingen(at)alreg(dot)no>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: linux standard layout |
| Date: | 2010-03-09 21:25:26 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d11003091325t6b659ef4x34222ed793022aa2@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
>> > In a nutshell, I am heartly recommending virtualization.
>>
>> In a nutshell, you are relying on luck that both heavy iron machines
>> can't lose power at the same time. Sure, it's a low possibility, but
>> it's still a real one.
>>
>
> Not luck. Percentage of risk.
They're both ways of saying you're rolling the dice. And in every
situation we're rolling the dice, it's just a question of how many and
how unlikely a particular outcome it. It's why we all have off-site
backups, and so on.
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