[Wlug] I'd like to see Windows do this....

[Tal Cohen]

Hi Folks,

    I recently ran across an interesting situation that I wanted to share
this group. A customer of ours called us, 

letting us know that our server in their data center was beeping. We tried
to ssh into the box, but kept getting 

connection refused. I asked the customer to hook up a monitor and keyboard
to the box, and try a simple TTY. 

Sure enough, he was unable to log in. It turns out that the hard drive that
holds the OS (Crux Linux) failed. 

     Now, that in and of itself is not very interesting. What is interesting
is that our software kept running even 

without the OS drive functioning. Our software resides on a separate drive.
Since it was already loaded into 

memory and almost never needs to touch the OS drive, it just kept going.and
going..and going..

 

 

Tal

     

 

 

 

 

 

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