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Re: Are there rescue disks that recognise LVM2 and RAID



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 ...

-- hendrik



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