Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE3A650EA1 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:07:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39754-03 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:07:39 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gwmta.wicourts.gov (gwmta.wicourts.gov [165.219.244.99]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CB6650E88 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:07:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from Courts-MTA by gwmta.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:07:39 -0500 Message-Id: <486242F4.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.3 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:07:25 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: "Andrew Sullivan" , Subject: Re: Hardware vs Software RAID References: <48622660.4050403@careerjunction.co.za> <1214409331.28228.8.camel@jd-laptop> <20080625180029.GM37604@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: <20080625180029.GM37604@commandprompt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/149 X-Sequence-Number: 30499 >>> Andrew Sullivan wrote: > this is a blade that cuts both ways, and the key thing to do is > to ensure you have good testing infrastructure in place to check that > things will work before you deploy to production. (The other way to > say that, of course, is "Linux is only free if your time is worth > nothing." Substitute your favourite free software for "Linux", of > course. ;-) ) It doesn't have to be free software to cut that way. I've actually found the free software to waste less of my time. If you depend on your systems, though, you should never deploy any change, no matter how innocuous it seems, without testing. -Kevin