From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMjaw-0002Ot-DM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:41:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A357E0371; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73775E0371 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id DA40F2091FA for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:41:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1AA208FE9 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:41:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.0) with ESMTPSA id 30187142 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:41:39 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <43ba12950802052219m2e8ce3ebw6d33f4f0d5ed6b1b@mail.gmail.com> <200802061253.45910.tonko.mulder@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802061341.37169.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: dfb22718-6459-4259-87c0-67912fdf9920 X-Archives-Hash: c58564b31a30452319c588ce39498ab2 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. -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list