On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 03:31:42PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > > It would also give people the ability to try to rescue corrupted root > > filesystems without needing special infrastructure (like a PXE server) > > and without having to physically be near the machine (with a CD boot). > > This is a strawman -- your scenario is that they've just installed or > upgraded, in which case they've already set up this infrastructure or > are already close to the box. I don't understand why you think that everyone should be running a PXE server, which can be a security nightmare as well as an administrative hassle. The following is a real-world, though perhaps ill-advised, configuration: o /boot on RAID1 across several /dev/sd?1 o swap on RAID1 across several other /dev/sd?1 o Everything else on LVM2-over-RAID5 on /dev/sd?2 [As disks have gotten larger and cheaper, putting the root file system on RAID5 has become less attractive, but people still do it.] A disk failure followed by a crash/outage requires manual intervention to bring the RAID5 back online, since we do not have RAID5 journaling yet, and it is still early days for RAID6. Getting to a command prompt and running mdadm to reassemble the array would certainly be quite useful. -Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
