[i]How can you be so sure? My experience shows that disk start to mess up data a long time before it starts really failing. For example on my last ThinkPad, I used it 3/4 year and got strange segfault in one app. I rebooted forced fsck and viola file was corrupted due to failed sector.[/i]
Thanks Karel, for supporting my point! Yes, you had a data failure as a result of a hardware failure, voilà. Time to bash those hard drive manufacturers who promise MTBFs of easily 500.000 hours. [i]Today I rather run 2 drives in ZFS mirror configuration... I'm not sure it's safer[/i] Tell you what is safer and consumes less energy: Remove one of the drives and make it a USB-drive. Run your preferred OS from a single drive with different partitions, and use a clever script to 'dump' the system partitions to your USB-drive at decent intervals (e.g. monthly), and do some tar/cp -u/rsync for /home. My last 2 sen, Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
