A Diagnosis of Self-Healing Systems 149
gManZboy writes "We've been hearing about self-healing systems for a while, but (as is usual), so far it's more hype than reality. Well it looks like Mike Shapiro (from Sun's Solaris Kernel group) has been doing a little actual work in this direction. His prognosis is that there's a long way to go before we get fully self-healing systems. In this article he talks a little bit about what he's done, points out some alternative approaches to his own, as well as what's left to do."
The challenge of a truly self-healing system (Score:4, Funny)
Neither the applications nor the OS should depend on the other providing any failover or self-healing services; they should always be prepared to go it alone if necessary (as it might be the failover system). Services that crash should restart themselves, etc. This part is pretty well done by most enterprise-grade server software. It's the operating systems we're waiting to play catch-up.
And I'm still waiting to see any box that can replace its own power supply after someone flips the 115/230 switch. Once we get that, then we'll have truly self-healing systems. And all you BOFH's out there might be looking for a new career...
Re:One system this will never work on (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Had this 3 years ago (Score:3, Funny)
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too late (Score:3, Funny)