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Re: itp: static bins / resolving static debian issues



* Michael Stone said:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 01:53:52PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > Come on. You put up a brand new machine with a shiny, new Debian
> > installation on it. Suddenly your 2GB SCSI drive fails for some reason. The
> > system was brand new, was it a "known crippled server"? You're root
> > partition on the broken disk is damaged, but your other disk which has /usr
> > and /var/www on it still works. What you have to do? Hotswap the broken disk
> > and copy a backup of the root dir and do it all without downing a server.
> > With statics it's possible.
> 
> It's also already possible with sash. :) Except for the hotswapping the
> broken disk part--and I'd be curious to hear how you think that's going
> to work with static bins, either.
:)) Well, I keep my backups in a cpio archive - so I need at least cpio
working :)))). Also mk2fs MIGHT be necessary :)). Other than that, sash does
it all. Hmm... perhaps also ar would be nice :))

marek
 


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