Re: [opensuse] 3 partitions vs. 11 partitions



David Haller wrote:
Let's say I'd use LVM, what if e.g. /dev/sde shows defects (seen in
the SMART data). Can LVM show me what dirs and files(!) I have on the
PV(s) on that probably soon-failing drive?

Doesn't matter because in the sane world you're now running LVM over a
RAID, right? So the RAID tells you it's replaced /dev/sde with the hot
spare and the rebuild is in progress. End of story. :-P

-dnh, hand-selected, translated sig for this occasion

[1] All Hardware Sucks, All Software Sucks,

[2] anything that can go wrong, will. At the most inconvenient
time. Wreaking as much havoc as possible [e.g. taking the most
important data with it].

But yes, I do agree with these points. Sometimes it would keep me awake
at night if I was the obsessive worrying type.
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