From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: New install, /var on tmpfs
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:41:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802061341.37169.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2008.02.06.12.22.29@cox.net>
On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Duncan wrote:
>
> The root and rootbak partitions contain most of /usr and /var as well,
> basically everything that gets touched by ebuilds and the package manager
> including its data, so it all stays in sync. If I were doing it over,
> the only two things I'd do differently would be to have two rootbaks, so
> if the system crashed while I was writing the one backup and neither it
> nor the primary working root were functional, I could still boot the
> other backup, and I'd create my RAID using at least 5 spindles/drives
> (but go lower end on capacity per spindle), as writing to a 4-way RAID-6
> is slowwwww.
and the more spindles, the higher the chance for a fatal disk crash.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-06 6:19 [gentoo-amd64] New install, /var on tmpfs Tonko Mulder
2008-02-06 7:39 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-02-06 7:47 ` Tonko Mulder
2008-02-06 10:19 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2008-02-06 11:53 ` Tonko Mulder
2008-02-06 12:22 ` Duncan
2008-02-06 12:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2008-02-06 20:32 ` Duncan
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