Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: ext4 features | | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | | Date | Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:30:24 -0400 |
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:02:40 EDT, Theodore Tso said:
> So such a scheme would only be used when some Ph.D. student has ten > years of thesis research on a disk with no backups and then > accidentally runs mkfs on the wrong partition..... of course, one > could argue that such a stupid student doesnt *deserve* to get a Ph.D. :-)
The more common use case is a department hires a grad student to run the department server rather than somebody who knows what they're doing (but costs more than a grad student stipend), and said grad student first sets up a borked backup scheme that looks like it works, but doesn't actually produce restorable backups, and then runs mkfs on /home, nuking all the thesis work of all the students.... (And yes, I've seen that more than once in a quarter century of working at .edu's... ;) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |