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Subject: Re: What's left over.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 06:34, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>   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.

My concerns are solely with things like the correctness of the disk
dumper. Its obviously a good way to do a lot more damage if it isnt done
carefully. Quite clearly your dump system wants to support multiple dump
targets so you can dump to pci battery backed ram, down the parallel
port to an analysing box etc

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