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Drive mirroring - opinion wanted



Richard Pieri <richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Jun 8, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Modern linux systems come with smartd that will email you as soon as  
>> it
>> notices a drive issue.
>
>
> Which leads to a possible chicken and egg problem: your mail spool is  
> faulted.

Not at all!  'root' mail should never go local.

> --Rich P.

-derek

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