* Stefan Monnier (2009-03-18):
> > That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
> > long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
> > have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that
> > directory would result in deleting the original fil
> That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
> long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
> have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that
> directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a
> symbolic link). I could
> The comfort of administering just one LV, covering both disks carries
> the risk that most of the data will be useless on failure of one disk
> and possible data recovery will be difficult to predict. The 'classical'
> two partition approach at least gives the possibility to save some
> crucial
In <20090317141915.ga61...@fuchs>, André Berger wrote:
>That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
>long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
>have to access just one directory.
You might want to look into unionfs (or other "layered" file systems
André Berger wrote:
* André Berger (2009-03-16):
(Replying to myself and trying to sum up your A&Qs)
Thank you all for the helpful discussion and detailed instructions,
_much appreciated_.
I'm aware of the significance of backups, and keep redundant backups
of 'important' data. The files in
* André Berger (2009-03-16):
(Replying to myself and trying to sum up your A&Qs)
Thank you all for the helpful discussion and detailed instructions,
_much appreciated_.
I'm aware of the significance of backups, and keep redundant backups
of 'important' data. The files in question are 'just movi
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:18:28AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > In , Stefan
> > Monnier
> > wrote:
> >>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
> >>> available?
> >> You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommen
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In , Stefan Monnier
> wrote:
>>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
>>> available?
>> You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended,
>> unless you have backups elsewhere.
>
> You don't really lose it all. If the
In , Stefan Monnier
wrote:
>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
>> available?
>
>You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended,
>unless you have backups elsewhere.
You don't really lose it all. If the disk is just unavailable, the VG is
just
> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
> available?
You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended,
unless you have backups elsewhere.
Stefan
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In <20090316183713.ga...@fuchs>, André Berger wrote:
>My plan is to create a Logical Volume Group to span two partitions
>located on different disks, and export that LV group via NFS. If I
>got it right (please correct me), I need partitions of type 8e on
>both disks.
LVM is happy to use any block
André Berger wrote:
> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
> available?
You are out of luck and loose access to any of your data.
You didn't expect something else, did you?
Cheers,
Johannes
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André Berger wrote:
Hi there!
I'm on Etch and have got two external USB disks, one GB each in size.
Disk1 contains one ext3 partition and my media files, and is full.
Disk2 is empty and should take future media files. I don't have a
third disk I could use for backups.
My plan is to create a Log
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