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From: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID for USB flash drives
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:14:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D237F91.8010407@crc.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D237E70.6030104@anonymous.org.uk>

On 5/01/2011 7:09 AM, John Robinson wrote:
> Or 3. I might just decide to use just one stick to boot the system from
> (as a /boot) and put the rest of the system in an LVM LV, or even a
> file, on the main array, and make sure I had a second stick to start the
> system from if the first one went bad.

That might even be overkill... Yes its good for shits n giggles, however 
with 4Gb you can have the entire OS on a single stick... Even RAID might 
be overkill! Boot from a single stick and rsync it to somewhere else 
incase the thing dies.

> In any case, it's an interesting project, so good luck!

That it is.

-- 
Steven Haigh

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-04 19:40 RAID for USB flash drives Hank Barta
2011-01-04 20:09 ` John Robinson
2011-01-04 20:14   ` Steven Haigh [this message]
2011-01-14 23:25   ` Hank Barta
2011-01-15 20:54     ` John Robinson
     [not found]       ` <AANLkTinQcu8jwKGiYViBP_CE0Hd4UbaO4spvMgnmRoa8@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <4D358490.4020400@anonymous.org.uk>
2011-01-18 13:47           ` Hank Barta
2011-01-17 15:41     ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-01-04 21:22 ` Iordan Iordanov

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