[plug] Home Server LVM/RAID stuff

[Richard Meyer]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 21:21 +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Coleman <blinken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nothing I know of on Linux will let you do per-folder selection of
> > whether to store on a redundant volume, unfortunately.
> 
> I'm not too fussed about the per-folder support. I'm happy to have my
> important stuff on a separate volume.
> A per-folder solution could be done using a fs that supports extra
> metadata, and inotify. I don't know if such a beast already exists
> though, but it wouldn't be too hard. Hmmm...

MAYBE you could do it per-folder by putting soft links into a certain
default location that point to the folders you wish to back up.

Not perfect, but it MAY actually work.

> 
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Richard Meyer
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