Too much time wasted installing fedora on raid1

[Avi Kivity]

Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:

>Replying to David Woodhouse:
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>>RAID is just a hack which hides the redundancy from the file system; the
>>kind of thing we always used to have to do for DOS compatibility so that
>>we could provide an INT 13h handler and have it 'just work'. It's much
>>the same reasoning which led to the built-in 'translation layers' on
>>cheap CF cards and USB sticks which so often eat your data and which
>>have a tendency to use up their limited lifetime in copying obsolete
>>sectors belonging to deleted files around on the underlying medium.
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>>We don't _need_ that kind of layering in Linux. Have a library of
>>functions which can be used for such redundancy, by all means -- but
>>don't just make RAID pretend to be a 'standard' block device and prevent
>>all possibility of sharing knowledge between the file system and the
>>layer providing the redundancy. That's just insane.
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>Well, everything you said habove is correct. But I've yet seen any
>"redundant block device filesystem" project anywhere.
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Sun zfs, Isilon OneFS, possibly others.

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