On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Guy wrote: > light 1000 candles at the same time. Then monitor them until the first one > fails, say at 2 minutes. I think the MTBF would then be computed as 2000 > minutes MTBF! But we can be sure that by 2.5 minutes, at least 90% of them > would have failed. Which is why you, when you purchase a lot of stuff, should ask for an annual return rate value, which probably makes more sense than MTBF, even though these values are related. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
