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Orthogonal elements

Orthogonal elements

Posted Apr 30, 2008 12:26 UTC (Wed) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
In reply to: Orthogonal elements by NAR
Parent article: Ksplice: kernel patches without reboots

Obviously you can't ever achieve 100% availability - what if the Sun turns into supernova and burns the whole Earth?

You'll be glad you had that redundant Sun and redundant Earth floating around! ;-)


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Orthogonal elements

Posted Apr 30, 2008 23:16 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hence the term `hot spare'...

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