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Yeah that’s a fair line and often how I like to think about things (ie are the failure domains coupled on error or not). The only nit is that it’s not uncommon
by vlovich123 3y ago
Yeah that’s a fair line and often how I like to think about things (ie are the failure domains coupled on error or not). The only nit is that it’s not uncommon for storage layers or really any HW to swallow errors and not even report it to the kernel. And that’s ignoring that silent memory errors happen a lot on most consumer HW.
- nrr 3y agoAgain, you aren't wrong, and it's actually a lament of mine that these peripheral processors aren't themselves under the purview of the kernel's scheduler for their tailor-made tasks or that the code that runs there isn't debuggable in much the same way as any other code. It is, nevertheless, good enough for most people that it more or less works 80% of the time. Pareto strikes again.