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Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirroring USB Drive with Laptop for Backup purposes

Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirroring USB Drive with Laptop for Backup purposes
From: Ragnar Sundblad
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 08:20:49 +0200
On 12 maj 2010, at 05.31, Brandon High wrote:

> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Richard Elling
> <richard.elling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> boot single user and mv it (just like we've done for fstab/vfstab for
>> the past 30+ years :-)
> 
> It would be nice to have a grub menu item that ignores the cache, so
> if you know you've removed a USB drive, you don't need to muck about
> in single user then reboot again.
> 
> But who needs usability? This is unix, man.

But that shouldn't ever be needed, except in this case where there
is a bug, should it?

Implementing options to work around every thinkable bug would be an
interesting problem, but I believe the problem is to hard to be
solved in reasonable time.

/ragge

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