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Actually most Linux users are blissfully unaware that Linux overallocates memory and of those that know about it, very few understand the consequences to applic
by Annatar 7y ago
Actually most Linux users are blissfully unaware that Linux overallocates memory and of those that know about it, very few understand the consequences to applications (such as data corruption or data loss). I doubt anyone who fully understood the consequences would want to run their infrastructure on something so unreliable and I doubt it because it's logical to me that they wouldn't.
- zzzcpan 7y agoYou got it backwards. Those of us who care about reliability would never rely on reliability of a single system to safely store data. And overallocating memory is not even remotely that important compared to everything else that can go wrong on a system.
- Annatar 7y agoOne cannot build a reliable system on unreliable software. If you believe you can, there is a lesson in store waiting for you.
- jolmg 7y agoIPv4 on its own is not reliable, but TCP adds reliability on top of it. Aren't distributed systems in general also designed to be reliable despite being composed of unreliable components?
- zzzcpan 7y agoYes, fault tolerance is the reason distributed systems field even exists. Literally to make something reliable out of unreliable.