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"snapshot" RAID



On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:12:54PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Losing data this way is more common than catastrophic disk or
> > filesystem failure in my experience, so recovering from it
> > gracefully is more useful.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> But unless you are tight on storage on the primary drive, why not do both?

To circle back to the beginning of the thread: it's a 160GB
drive. If I were doing it on a TB disk, I might.


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