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On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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>> On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>>> ... |
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>>> Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw |
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>>> things up |
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>>> further? |
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>> If this is unsafe I will have ketchup & mustard on my baseball cap. |
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> er... could you translate that? How about "dead horse on my baggy |
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> green"? |
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http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I'll+eat+my+hat |
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I just don't see how you can break anything *as long as* you don't let |
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the system write anything to the disks. How can read-only be unsafe? |
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One might be paranoid enough to clone images of the drive before |
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proceeding, however. |
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My one concern is over how you know this system uses software RAID. |
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You know that EIDE hardware RAID was available, right? I'm sure this |
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would rarely be available built-in to the motherboard. |
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Stroller. |
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