[Gllug] XFS_repair cannot find master or secondary superblocks

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 04:16:14AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Bruce Richardson writes:
> 
> >Dirvish relies on hard links.  The most obvious limitation there is that
> >all your "copies" have to be on the same disk and thus all vulnerable
> >to being wiped out by the same disk failure.
> 
> Not at all. The restriction is that they need to be on the same
> *filesystem*, which is an entirely different proposition, and
> one that's trivial to protect against disk failure.

True enough.  But a single filesystem is still not a safe place to trust
to hold all your backups.

-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 261 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20060304/f7361c0a/attachment.pgp>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug