[Discuss] SysVinit vs. systemd

[Bill Ricker]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
> a trend
> away from debugging problems and towards just doing reinstalls/restarts.   I
> think the rise of virtualization (particularly in the cloud) has
> driven this.   As the
> tools make it easier and easier to spin up a new VM, why bother to figure out
> what caused the old one to fail, just reinitalize a new one and keep going.

With virtualization (and multi-instance scale-out), it's not a
disjunction: you can do BOTH (as someone pointed out up-thread). If
you autostart a replacement instance (or just shift load to a N/N+m
survivor) and keep the failed offline, you can debug at leisure while
continuing/restoring service.

[ how much debugging you can do off-line with it cut off from other
tiers is a separate question, but you can at least collect 'forensics'
that will be destroyed at re-start. ]
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