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> mirroring, it's still not worth it. Here's a simple example why not. If |
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> you machine dies and your backups are "inadequate", you may want to try and |
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> recover the disc by putting it into another system. How? If you didn't |
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> back up a bunch of magic information from the original system's /etc |
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> directory, you're well and truly screwed. But even if you have the |
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Actually this isn't strictly true. I've had issues where I've "lost" |
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my arrays under normal booting (may be due to non-bd patched system or |
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something, but basically I'd reboot and the kernel would grab one disk |
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of my 2xRAID5 arrays acting-as-one-big-ass-disk setup and that would |
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fail one RAID5, causing EVMS to tell me the array was b0rked... very |
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nerve-wracking when you have 600G of non-backed up media....). Anyway, |
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I've rebooted with a gentoo live CD, ran evmsn from the command line, |
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selected the evms partition and it's all up and going, without accessing |
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anything on the host machine. |
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Alan <alan@×××××.org> - http://arcterex.net |
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