* 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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