Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

> mirroring, it's still not worth it. Here's a simple example why not. If
> you machine dies and your backups are "inadequate", you may want to try and
> recover the disc by putting it into another system. How? If you didn't
> back up a bunch of magic information from the original system's /etc
> directory, you're well and truly screwed. But even if you have the

Actually this isn't strictly true. I've had issues where I've "lost" my arrays under normal booting (may be due to non-bd patched system or something, but basically I'd reboot and the kernel would grab one disk of my 2xRAID5 arrays acting-as-one-big-ass-disk setup and that would fail one RAID5, causing EVMS to tell me the array was b0rked... very nerve-wracking when you have 600G of non-backed up media....). Anyway, I've rebooted with a gentoo live CD, ran evmsn from the command line, selected the evms partition and it's all up and going, without accessing anything on the host machine.

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