[nycbug-talk] 4.8 just too old?

[Ray Lai]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:55:00PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Ray Lai wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:57:42PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >>I've been so happy with 4.8 on a few machines that can't tolerate downtime
> >>that I haven't even considered moving them to 4.11 yet.
> >
> >Downtime will come whether you want it or not.  If your machines
> >can't tolerate downtime you should probably increase their tolerance.
> 
> Is this "tolerance" you speak of free? :)

Staying unprepared for downtime is costly.

Increasing downtime tolerance is usually cheaper than recovering
from unexpected downtime (hardware failure, malicious Ritz crackers,
et cetera).

-Ray-