Sander wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote (ao):
>
>>On 10/25/05, Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Cheaper how? Two disks are cheaper than one?
>
>
> If you opt for a copy of everything, yes. Because of a 500GB drive only
> half of it is effectively usable. Two 250GB disks raid1 are much cheaper
Gregory Maxwell wrote (ao):
> On 10/25/05, Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That will kill performance badly. First of all the two read/writes
> > needed, and second because you have to seek from one end to the disk
> > to the other every time you read/write something.
>
> Kill it worse for w
Please remember that the idea of the plugin is that it is selectively
used on a few files.
On 10/25/05, Ingo Bormuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree, real backups are the major weappon against classical data loss due
> to hardware failure.
> Other quite anoying and common causes for data loss are accidentally deleted,
> overwritten or modified files. A _simple_ versioning plugin wou
On 10/25/05, Sander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That will kill performance badly. First of all the two read/writes
> needed, and second because you have to seek from one end to the disk to
> the other every time you read/write something.
Kill it worse for writes than a filesytem without wandering
On 10/25/05, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for
> a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin
> that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at
> opposite ends of the disk.
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:25 +0200, Sander wrote:
> Hans Reiser wrote (ao):
> > This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for
> > a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin
> > that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at
Konstantin Münning wrote:
> Sander wrote:
> Yes, having backups is better but that wouldn't help if it's your
> laptop, the backups are 2000 miles away in your office and you have only
> some Linux Boot CD?! ;-)
Many see Internet access as an essential utility, like running water.
If I have Inter
On 2005-10-25 02:28, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> >And what is the advantage? You are not protected against a lot of disk
> >failures (only against bad blocks, right?).
>
> It is only for very important files for computers which have only one
> hard drive. Some of the work is with changing fsck.
>
Sander wrote:
> Hans Reiser wrote (ao):
>
>>It is only for very important files for computers which have only one
>>hard drive. Some of the work is with changing fsck.
>
>
> Well, if the files are important, then you should have backups anyway,
> whatever raid or similar you have. I still do
Hans Reiser wrote (ao):
> It is only for very important files for computers which have only one
> hard drive. Some of the work is with changing fsck.
Well, if the files are important, then you should have backups anyway,
whatever raid or similar you have. I still don't see an advantage in
havi
Sander wrote:
>Hans Reiser wrote (ao):
>
>
>>This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for
>>a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin
>>that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at
>>opposite ends of the disk. Anyon
Hans Reiser wrote (ao):
> This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for
> a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin
> that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at
> opposite ends of the disk. Anyone out there still look
This would not be (at least in theory) useful for RAID devices, but for
a user with a single disk drive, it might be useful to have a plugin
that creates two (or N) copies, and tries to allocate the two copies at
opposite ends of the disk. Anyone out there still looking for a plugin
to write?
Han
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