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From: eos!eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: References for Fault Tolerent, "safe" file system
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In article <7597@saturn.ucsc.edu> moscom!adp@cs.rochester.edu (Alan Percy) writes:
> Redundancy in fault-tolerance....
>simple conclusion:
>
>We where going to use dual hard disks and controllers.

General question:
Does this mean that Tandems are the wave of the fault-tolerant future?
We are certainly going to see multiprocessors and arrays of disks, and
I have never regarded computers as reliable.

Another gross generalization from

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