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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:25:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: linux standard layout
From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: jd@commandprompt.com
Cc: Jan-Ivar Mellingen <jan-ivar.mellingen@alreg.no>,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrot=
e:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
>> > In a nutshell, I am heartly recommending virtualization.
>>
>> In a nutshell, you are relying on luck that both heavy iron machines
>> can't lose power at the same time. =A0Sure, it's a low possibility, but
>> it's still a real one.
>>
>
> Not luck. Percentage of risk.

They're both ways of saying you're rolling the dice.  And in every
situation we're rolling the dice, it's just a question of how many and
how unlikely a particular outcome it.  It's why we all have off-site
backups, and so on.