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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:27:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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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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