volume management

[Ivan Voras]

Eric Anderson wrote:

> Personally, what I would want to prevent, is having a server go down due
> to one file system having an issue, when it is serving (or using) many
> more file systems.  I currently have a box with 5 10Tb file systems on
> it, and when I mount a 6th file system (2Tb) which I *know* has metadata
> inconsistencies that fsck can't fix, I don't want it to take down all
> 50Tb of good solid storage.  

This is slightly off-topic, but this is one of the reasons full
virtualisation is used. If your kernel panics inside a VM, it's
expendable :)



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