[Gllug] Re: RAID on laptop or xfs?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:59:33PM +0100, Liam wrote:
> Although the subject of the thread seems to through most of the
> solutions out the window, it is after all a laptop, which precludes
> things like UPSs and probably SCSI - are laptops still available with
> SCSI? Of course if it's a laptop it's not that critical and running a
> journaled FS is better than running a non journaled FS. With the
> chance of a messed up FS that can' t be fscked to fix. being rather
> small, it seems pointless to worry about it too much. Rather just back
> up (and test your backups) an dbe done with it.

Backups are important but if you are running live online applications
then so is uptime.  Drives and filesystems that recover quickly from
accidental shutdown are important for that uptime; if you have to resort
to your backups then their existence may protect you from total disaster
but you are losing money every second you are done (and if restoring
from backup is going to take hours or days, that's fairly disastrous).

-- 
Bruce

I am now a little wary of bananas.
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