Royal Pain

[Henry Spencer]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Probes on their way to Mars should not get full filesystems either.

This happened on the Martian surface, actually, not en route.  And it was
rather more subtle than a full filesystem. 

The issue with that, and some other past spacecraft problems, is that the
environment is complex and it's a judgement call as to where testing
effort is best expended.  It's not practical to test all possibilities. 
In hindsight, it's easy to say "should have tested that one", but there
are too many such issues.

"*Everything* is released before perfection because we can't afford to
wait long enough.  This is a general truth about engineering." --Les Hatton

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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