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List:       djbdns
Subject:    Re: Full featured djbdns jumbo patch
From:       Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask () develooper ! com>
Date:       2001-10-13 23:21:15
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, John Peacock wrote:

> > Hardware failure, OS failure, fs failure, cat(1) coding error..
> > Granted, neither of those could make it through the two-step process
> > either, but still your data.cdb would be completely unmangled - tinydns-data
> > would not have even been run.
>
> That's what I thought; low probability things that are far worse in
> their other effects than missing a file from the data.cdb.  If any of
> those things happen, the fact that my tinydns isn't working is going
> to be the least of my worries... ;~)

That's silly.  Hardware failures happen all the time so you ought to
build your systems with that in mind.

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