Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Lots of companies can't afford to make a completely redundant infrastructure. Especially if you have a fairly powerful server (that one was handling storage for CCTV streams and lots of other tasks). And anyway, it's non-trivial in any case.

> Again, the answer to system hangs (which are *inevitable* - this is *commodity hardware* we're talking about most of the time, not mainframes) is remote power booters.
Oh, I've witnessed mainframe hangups. Remote reboot is nice, but that server was from around 2006 so it didn't have IPMI and the datacenter where it was hosted offered only manual reboots.