Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 2020-11-21 08:40, Andy Smith wrote:

> I'm used
> to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for
> everything.

> how do you
> choose to provide redundancy for your ESP any why did you make that
> choice?

I MBR and single 2.5" SSD's for system drives.


For desktops and servers, I mount them in trayless racks.  My older 
laptops have externally accessible drive bays.


I keep my system images small enough to fit onto "16 GB" devices and 
take an image once a month to protect against operator error, bad 
updates/ upgrades, malware, device failure, etc..


I use ZFS for boot and root where available (OOTB on FreeBSD, Debian 
requires too much work) and install with "copies=2" to protect against 
localized storage errors, etc..


David