[H-GEN] Linux file server

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Paul Gearon wrote:
>> Harry Phillips wrote:
>> > I have been considering this myself, so what would you use to
>> > image one drive to another each night? dd?
>> Not being an expert, I'd still suggest avoiding that.  If the first
>> drive fails while you're reading from it you've blown away two
>> drives at once.
>
> And if this wasn't enough fun, a bug in XFS has been discovered - if
> you open a partiton device file for _read_ (using say dd) while the
> filesystem is mounted, XFS will trash all the data on the filesystem
[...]

> So for XFS users, using dd like this is just not an option at the
> moment.

Would you really want to copy the UUID for the host filesystem anyway?
(No, seriously, I'm curious and can't make a good decision.)

It strikes me that you're better off to store xfsdump images or
tarballs, or at the worst, suck it up and run an rsync overnight.

jason
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