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Re: XFS and root shell

To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS and root shell
From: "Nathan Scott" <nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:21:17 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl> "Re: XFS and root shell" (Jan 2, 2:01am)
References: <Pine.BSI.4.10.10101020145360.6985-100000@xs3.xs4all.nl>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
hi Seth,

On Jan 2,  2:01am, Seth Mos wrote:
> Subject: Re: XFS and root shell
> > ...
> > this is really a bit of an unusual one ... the log format change
> > wasn't really corruption (which is what xfs_repair is out to
> > fix), it was a premeditated ondisk format change comparable to
> > ... i guess what i'm getting at
> > is that this example doesn't really have much to do with a rescue
> > disk after all...
> 
> Ehm, if you have faulty RAM you still might want to have that rescue disk

yes, but thats a different example. ;-)

> though. Suppose that you have your root as xfs and something funky happens
> to your hardware?

yup, sure, you absolutely want a rescue disk in those cases.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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