On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:32:32PM -0500, Mike Accetta wrote:
> Yes, we actually have a separate (smallish) boot partition at the front of
> the array. This does reduce the at-risk window substantially. I'll have to
> ponder whether it reduces it close enough to negligible to then ignore, but
> that is indeed a good point to consider.
Replacing a failed disk requires a human to pull out the old disk and
insert the new one. The /boot partition should resync in less than 1
minute (if not, it's _way_ too big), so the same human should still be
around to kick the machine if something goes wrong.
Gabor
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