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Subject: Re: linux standard layout
From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
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And Jan-Ivar, please don't think I'm saying your way is not a valid
way to do things, it just requires things like read recoverable dbs
via PITR or something like that.  Without a read to recover separate
machine for your big db you could be facing downtime measured in hours
or even days.