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Re: Power Failure

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Power Failure
Date	2018-07-20 01:00 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 06:45:16PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>Cheap is a relative term. It's only "cheap" if it's cheap enough for a
>particular context to enjoy. Even if a HD was only a dollar a TB, it wouldn't be
>cheap to someone with 0 dollars.

Well, you can't buy any storage with zero dollars. A journal is a couple 
of megabytes, and the cost difference between, say, 64GB and 64GB-32MB 
rounds to zero.

>Cheap space does not obviate the value of conservatism generally. The more space
>consumed, the more space, and _time_, consumed with backup and restore
>operations, even if nominal.

You don't generally backup a filesystem journal, and if you're doing a 
full image copy, see above.

Conservatism, in this case, is not doing something weird with /boot.

Mike Stone

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Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-07-19 08:30 +0200
  Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-07-19 14:00 +0200
    Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-07-19 14:10 +0200
      Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-07-19 15:20 +0200
    Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-07-19 18:20 +0200
      Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-07-19 18:50 +0200
        Re: Power Failure - was Re: Can one Mount a usb Drive read-only? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-07-20 03:30 +0200
      Re: Power Failure Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-19 19:50 +0200
        Re: Power Failure deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-07-20 00:10 +0200
          Re: Power Failure Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-20 00:50 +0200
            Re: Power Failure Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-07-20 01:00 +0200

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