[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.[/i]
Uwe, this is not safe! You may still end with messed up data very quickly, although you might be happy with the fact that you have up to one month old copy of them on the USB attached drive. The problem is: how to detect data corruption? Imagine you are copying corrupted data from your drive over good data (although old) on your USB drive! What's better now? New corrupted or old good? >From the engineering point of view my feeling is that ZFS guys hit nail right >on the head. And ZFS is exactly the reason I migrated from Linux after using >it for more than 13 years to OpenSolaris year ago... BTW: I have used ZFS-FUSE >(i.e. ZFS on Linux) for my home directory for about half of year or year >before going to Solaris being hit by ZFS-FUSE slowness... Karel -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
