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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.embedded |
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| From | JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> |
| Subject | Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? |
| References | <Q9c7w.764822$KL.491778@fx19.am4> <m3l2td$cqj$1@dont-email.me> |
| Message-ID | <slrnm5th50.ld0.jedi@nomad.mishnet> (permalink) |
| Date | 2014-11-08 19:34 -0600 |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2014-11-08, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> On 08/11/14 00:00, 7 wrote:
>> Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> I did 4TB upgrade to 6TB and the whole process
>> of backing up and fixing partitions took best part
>> of half a day with Linux.
>>
>> Never heard of such things.
Copying large amounts of data will take a long time.
Linux has nothing to do with that.
> Learn to use raid - either mdraid or btrfs with raid. Upgrading or
> replacing disks then needs only a little effort as you swap drives
> (perhaps powering off if you don't have hot swapping) - all the copying
> is done in the background, while the system is still working.
The same is still true of some more crude JBOD setup. What he is whining
about has squat to do with Linux and is simply a limitation of the technology
and the bulk of data he's dealing with.
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