Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Some context would help!
> Well, I always try to add a 2nd disk, mirror everything, and for upgrades, > drop the mirror and use it to install the new version into - sort of a manual > equivalent of a live upgrade, but actually a fresh install. Which means I > have to bring over all changes to volatile files myself, but I can know that > I'm starting clean. > > I agree that mirroring the root drive is important, but given the size of modern drives, a couple or three 8GB slices for root is just noise. > In a perfect world, I'd have _3_ disks for just the OS (so I'd never have > to drop a mirror, and would thus always have redundancy); but some boxes > don't have room for 3 disks internally. But then I'd also have a fast > NVRAM disk for highly volatile files (one of the worst is /etc/rmtab on > a busy NFS server with lots of client automounts). > > Just wait for ZFS boot from a couple of CF drives! Ian
