I'm actually considering using btrfs when Fedora 21 comes out to replace my RAID-1 mirroring. If a drive fails catastrophically without warning, as long as I have my backups or snapshots I can recover.
On 05/05/2014 02:21 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:28:48AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: >> Worries: >> >> - Flash can die with no warning and no recourse. I will be making a >> copy of the flash and keeping it on another medium. Maybe this board >> can boot from the SD slot it has? Maybe I just use a slow USB stick. > Make a backup to your RAID-1 and keep a USB boot stick around. Speed > doesn't matter much, since you won't use it much. Every so often -- > preferably automatically -- update the backup. > > If you're willing to redo the RAID-1, you could just keep a > small partition on it and automatically rsync that from your > root every night. Install grub on it and make it the second > choice for booting. -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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