Thats just about the only reasonable answer... Really, it makes no sense to use FOSS from oracle that is never going to be seriously mantained that way by oracle.
The real lost in this procurement contracts is that they are anticompetitive. How on earth are younger DB companies to compete with oracle if the government elevates the barrier of entry for them while it reduces them for the huge IT giants?
Really, govt. IT procurement needs to change and be more transparent worldwide.
WHy would one depend on a company as terrible as Oracle if you can get MariaDB, the mySQL fork from the people that invented MySQL. Check: http://askmonty.org/wiki/Main_Page
Yes, I agree, but right now its even worse than that. What "The Apple Experience" means is under constant construction and it changes with Jobs's mood. How in hell are content creators going to trust apple?
This is really besides the point. Databases can be told to shut up and flush before snapshoting with a script.
Ah, you perhaps think that the "elegance" of having an OS service tell clients of a volume that a snapshot is or will be done somehow pays for both the money and the downtime of using a filesystem as slow and farked as ntfs?
Do we not have ocfs2, gfs and gfs2 in Linux, XFS and JFS as well, and all of those do very fast, sane snapshoting over LVM2?
Yes, we do. You work for propsoftcorp PR, I get it. Enjoy your monday.
The thing is that, yes, I dont know how does windows shows it working, i do know it does it with the concept of volumes (a layer atop the partition).
Those may be in the filesystem or under it, but they are certaintly not partitions in any reasonable sense of the word.
Discs are discs, partitions are partitions (an entry in the partition table, which is not a figment of anyone's imagination), volumes are volumes and filesystems are filesystems regardless of you being in a Unix-like OS or a windows thingie.
And yes there is a practical difference in windows between partitions and volumes. Go to your windows server, open a console and fdisk your disc or san or whatever. You will see (a) partition(s) which are NOT volumes.
Yep my friend. It was deliberate at the time. It was supposed to be read as if someone was reading some idle slashdot conspiracy theory story in silence and suddenly exploded demanding his free drugz and obligatory orgies.
SPARCs, PARISCs and virtually anything non-intel have this kind of thing. Believe me, security is MUCH worse on intel's BIOS than on those architectures. Thank god BIOS is to die.
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Thats just about the only reasonable answer... Really, it makes no sense to use FOSS from oracle that is never going to be seriously mantained that way by oracle.
The real lost in this procurement contracts is that they are anticompetitive. How on earth are younger DB companies to compete with oracle if the government elevates the barrier of entry for them while it reduces them for the huge IT giants?
Really, govt. IT procurement needs to change and be more transparent worldwide.
WHy would one depend on a company as terrible as Oracle if you can get MariaDB, the mySQL fork from the people that invented MySQL. Check: http://askmonty.org/wiki/Main_Page
Yes, I agree, but right now its even worse than that. What "The Apple Experience" means is under constant construction and it changes with Jobs's mood. How in hell are content creators going to trust apple?
I stand before your comment in awe.
My feelings exactly. You wouldnt catch me dead with that crap on my hard drive.
Not new really, it was documented by Aristotle a while back.
This is really besides the point. Databases can be told to shut up and flush before snapshoting with a script.
Ah, you perhaps think that the "elegance" of having an OS service tell clients of a volume that a snapshot is or will be done somehow pays for both the money and the downtime of using a filesystem as slow and farked as ntfs?
Do we not have ocfs2, gfs and gfs2 in Linux, XFS and JFS as well, and all of those do very fast, sane snapshoting over LVM2?
Yes, we do. You work for propsoftcorp PR, I get it. Enjoy your monday.
Liblvm is right there, clvm works fine and gfs/lvm snapshots perfectly fine.
I think the GP is a MS astroturfer talking out of his ass.
Not at all. Its a lie. ext3 and lvm snapshots perfectly fine right now.
This guy is an astroturfer.
Thats just idiotic. LVM and ext3 perform sane, fast and performant snapshots right NOW and it has been that way for the past few years.
The thing is that, yes, I dont know how does windows shows it working, i do know it does it with the concept of volumes (a layer atop the partition).
Those may be in the filesystem or under it, but they are certaintly not partitions in any reasonable sense of the word.
Discs are discs, partitions are partitions (an entry in the partition table, which is not a figment of anyone's imagination), volumes are volumes and filesystems are filesystems regardless of you being in a Unix-like OS or a windows thingie.
And yes there is a practical difference in windows between partitions and volumes. Go to your windows server, open a console and fdisk your disc or san or whatever. You will see (a) partition(s) which are NOT volumes.
You cant do this in windows either, not with partitions. Thats why their solution is called shadow VOLUME. Cause it need VOLUMES to work.
OUr solution is called LVM Snapshots cause it needs LVM VOLUMES to work.
Now is that so hard to understand?
"We've been wasting all this money on backup for all these years."
Yes, by not using AMANDA or another FOSS backup solution, youve thrown money down the drain.
The incredibles and Wall-E are CRAP
RIM/Blackberry is much worse.
Yep my friend. It was deliberate at the time. It was supposed to be read as if someone was reading some idle slashdot conspiracy theory story in silence and suddenly exploded demanding his free drugz and obligatory orgies.
I thought it was quite obvious.
Hey, I'm open for suggestions.
SPARCs, PARISCs and virtually anything non-intel have this kind of thing. Believe me, security is MUCH worse on intel's BIOS than on those architectures. Thank god BIOS is to die.
Half the boot problems in the world are because of BIOS. EFI fixes them because it SHOULD provide many pre-boot tools that BIOS doesnt.
The BIOS in intel has been an ugly piece of shit for YEARS, even DECADES now. It was about fucking time.
Dear AC:
I think you are my long lost brother.
Tell mom I love her.
No such thing as an anonymous cellphone in Mexico anymore. We made a nazi-onal centralized registry of all phones.
It doesnt work though, but the money for the system naturaly went to pay some o other people.
You know, politics as usual, as in anywhere in the world.
Stupid criminals to the point of not having fake id's are probably the easyest to catch anyhow.
Honestly, are out lawmakers simply a bunch of retarded old idiots?
YES