On Jan 2, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Erik Wikstrvm wrote:
The preferable way to solve this would probably be to use two disks but that is not an option for me. So I was wondering if it is possible to instead split the disk in two parts, the first is used to install OpenBSD on, and the rest is split in two and setup in a mirror configuration using RAIDframe or something similar. If this is possible, will it buy me any additional protection against dataloss, or is it more likely that my disk crashes all together?
If the disk develops errors, no amount of replication on the same hard disk device will prevent potential dataloss. You'd be better off mirroring on two completely separate devices. Perhaps copying the same data to another system or service may work.
