Kurtis Peterson wrote:
> My main system had 3 HDDs (one just bit the dust last week :( ) ... the
> main drive is / which includes the /home ... the data drive is mounted
> to /home/kleedrac/data1 and /home/kleedrac/data2 ... they mostly just
> sit there for downloads ... all software/games/whatever is installed to
> the ext3 drive ... so essentially all that's on the data drives is
> movies, random divx/xvid, music, books and disc images ... and for that
> ext2 is fine :)
I'm curious -- why not RAID those drives together, or use LVM? On my
systems, I have RAID1 setup on every drive to provide some redundancy.
It does make things a bit more expensive when I setup, but it beats
having data lost when a drive fails.
I'd still recommend ext3 anyway -- it's not a panacea, but the journal
does help in case of accidental powerdowns (I've had SATA drive cables
work themselves loose, and the machine be fine -- of course, the
loosened system was just kicked out of the RAID and rebuilt when I next
rebooted).
Also, a UPS is essential. I just had another power outage on Friday
thanks to that electrical storm!
Received on Tue Aug 8 11:27:18 2006
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