[rescue] Ultra 30 and Maximum Drive Size

Eric Dittman rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jan 2 13:06:36 CST 2002


>   Multiple filesystems are usually viewed as being advantageous for
> several reasons, some of which are:
>... 
>   - if you have everything in one filesystem, and you toast it, you've
>     lost *everything* on the system

This is why all important disks should be in a raid configuration that
can survive the loss of a disk.  I like raid-1 the best, since disk is
cheap, but downtime can be extremely expensive (thousands of dollars each
minute).
-- 
Eric Dittman
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