Ivan Voras wrote:
> Yes, it would be cleaner to implement but it would also make the
> mirrored devices unbootable.
> But maybe the class of users needing the functionality is smaller now.
>
Most dedicated server providers can't afford to use hardware RAID
systems because that would drastically increase the price of a single
system; yet many customers want mirroring.
> Looks too complicated and fragile. Maybe there's a need for
> metadata-less automatic mirrors in some way, by storing the
> configuration somewhere else, possibly in /etc.
This might be dangerous in some cases. Imagine booting with two drives
swapped; such a configuration might lead to data corruption on a volume
which was enumerated incorrectly or swapped.
--
Kamigishi Rei
KREI-RIPE
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