Any time, as any serious application will need checksums anyways. It does not help you one bit if you spread data over seven 10 GB file systems or a single 70 GB file system - you will get exactly the same amount of URE in your 70GB data set.
"This much data" ? Hello? Are you a time traveler from the 1990s who has missed a decade of storage space expansion or simply trying to have a cheap laugh? 72TB is not "much" in this day and age. Also, fsck only deals with metadata, if you are worried about what happened to your data, the file system at hand is not adequate to your needs anyways.
OK, so I have a large x86/64 server and want to follow your advice. Can you please tell me where you can get AIX, or HP-UX, to run on X86?
Right. Very funny how you managed to pick out the two systems that don't run on x6 out of the three. If your question was even remotely serious there are two options for you: Solaris and FreeBSD.
Enticing them to sell it to you is entrapment as far as "sale of stolen property" is concerned.
I think that it is you that is trolling here. Not only are you deliberately spreading FUD about the nvidia drivers
the nvidia blob is actually a half-assed port of their Windows drivers to Linux
the only even marginally semi-constructive thing you appear capable of saying is "have you done some bug reporting?", while completely ignoring the fact that the support it provides is at the level where the only pertient bug report wording would be "when will you start planning to support the other 50%+ of the API?".
The problem still remains that it utterly sucks with 3d performance, something that is actually the foremost reason these days to actually have a discrete graphics card in your computer. What use is a graphics driver for a 3d card that does not do 3d?
Another example is the XRandR case. Nvidia bundles the nvidia-settings application which works fine if you use it. However if you want to use the KDE or gnome or whatever other software to change the screen resolution and multiple-screens, then you will notice how bad they work BECAUSE nvidia fails to properly implement the XRandR specification (instead they make some kind of wrapper to their own twinview). With nouveau, XRandR works beautifully.
Because nvidia also emulates Xinerama, sometimes window managers fail to properly detect your multi-screen setup geometry and you will get strange window management results. This happened to me and that's why I perfectly happy with nouveau. Of course I still hit bugs when playing opengl games and sometimes the GPU even hardlocks but I honestly prefer having those localized bugs than the general inconsistencies I described above.
BTW: cudos to everyone involved in nouveau. OpenCL support is indeed a very good thing
You see, the reality is that anybody doing any serious 3d work wants exactly the functionality that Twinview gives them, not the supposedly "correct" functionality from the OS drivers. What KDE and gnome should do is use the wrapper, not mess around on their own. And that is simply because everybody doing serious 3d cares about their application and the performance, not what abstraction of things the utterly boring and not terribly useful thing drawing window borders thinks of all of this.
These days 2 monitors is not "multiple monitors". TwinView works great.
Now try 4 monitors and 2 video cards with X.org.
Except of course, You only have TwinView if you are using the Nvidia binary blob drivers. Supporting TwinView is another thing the free drivers don't do.
Ahead warp factor one, Mr. Sulu.