Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:27:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | RE: 2.5.28 and partitions |
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > At 12:44 25/07/02, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > It's one database, and it's huge. > > > > ... and backups of your database are done on...? > > LVM snapshot + rsync to an identical machine elsewhere ?
Works fine until you find a nasty bug in (identical) firmware.
<cue story about RAID5 built out of a bunch of Seagates; a year later 6 disks out of 16 went to hell during a weekend - ones that had serial numbers within a $SMALLNUM from each other>
And that's aside of the "wisdom" of using LVM...
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