Re: Are there rescue disks that recognise LVM2 and RAID
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 08:58:27PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:16:19PM +0200, Alexander Sieck wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 03:00:15PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > > Why is rescue needed when raid1. please explain
> > > francesco pietra
> > >
> > RAID1 does not protect you to do: 'rm -rf /*' as root, just as one example.
>
> Not if you upgrade a kernel and fail to make sure that the new one
> supports RAID or if it happens to have a subtly broken version of LVM
> or something. Or if you manage accidentally to set up lilo to boot only
> and unbootable system or ...
Or if you reconfigure your RAID and you make a mistake and your RAID
partitions contain files essential to the boot process....
-- hendrik
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