I have been running AIX, IBM's Unix on IBM hardware for years but am
being forced into Lintel, mostly because of IBM hollowing out support,
moving to a Fortune 500 only customer base and leaving the small shop
increasingly SOL. One of the realities of Lintel is that the hardware
is, compared to purpose built Unix hardware with a matching O/S, crap.
Partially because it's based on commodity hardware, 'little' matters
like time consistency don't necessarily work consistently. Another area
is storage corruption. Interesting piece here:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html
Juergen wrote:
I'm pretty familiar with ntp in particular and computer timekeeping in
general.
I've also seen a fair number of situations where the hardware clock is
"just wrong", especially after a reboot.
In my world, it's about getting things to work right in as many cases as
possible.
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Now it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty
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