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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 01:34:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: What's left over.
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > 
> > How do you deal with netdump when your network driver is what caused the 
> > crash?
> 
> Actually, from a driver perspective, _the_ most likely driver to crash is 
> the disk driver. 
> 
> That's from years of experience. The network drivers are a lot simpler,
> the hardware is simpler and more standardized, and doesn't do as many
> things. It's just plain _easier_ to write a network driver than a disk
> driver.
> 
> Ask anybody who has done both.

  From the standpoint of just the driver that's true. However, the remote
machine and all the network bits between them are a string of single
points of failure. Isn't it good that both disk and network can be
supported.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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