aarggh, it came so close to making sense
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| tuxchick2 Aug 06, 2006 5:52 PM EDT |
It started out fine, then took a big tumble in the "Linux system recovery tools?" section: "Some UNIX administrators... are reluctant to move to Linux because that OS has no similar standard tools for full-system recovery." Ow ow ow. Zeelyuns of suitable tools are but a 'yum install' or 'apt-get' away. They might not come on the installation disks, but sheesh, short of the devs making a personal visit to your office it doesn't get any easier. "In addition, most Linux distributions are fairly unsophisticated about how they install themselves. In most instances they use a single hard disk that is partitioned with a single root filesystem containing all system files as well as other applications and user data." This conjures up an image of a penguin hog-tying the poor helpless admin and refusing to allow custom partitioning. And it ignores the fact that most distributions have various pre-fab partitioning schemes. "In more sophisticated configurations, an administrator might take advantage of performance, flexibility and availability benefits by spending considerable time reorganizing the system to use LVM, software RAID, enhanced filesystem types and other advanced techniques. Unfortunately, all this time-consuming and costly hard work, which may evolve over several years, must be repeated if the system crashes or new hardware arrives." eh? Haven't heard of EVMS, have you. Ah well, if you skip the Linux-ignernt bit, it's decent article. |
| jimf Aug 06, 2006 6:10 PM EDT |
Look at http://evms.sourceforge.net/ |
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