[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

Paul Sture paul at sture.ch
Sun Mar 18 09:30:16 EDT 2012


On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:35:55 -0400, JF Mezei wrote:

> How does Google handle having 50,000 Linux nodes (or whatever number
> they have have shared access to databases ?

They probably have more nodes than that.  Apparently it all runs on 
commodity hardware and recovery is designed in, with whole teams employed 
to replace disks and systems when they fail.

OTOH that might explain why some search results could be better :-)

-- 
Paul Sture



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