Magnus Hedemark on 15 Feb 2004 16:48:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Interview Questions: System Admin


On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, William H. Magill wrote:

> Other than for the pure macho geekieness of it, what earthly good is 
> knowing the disk structure today?
> 
> Any file system broken enough to need the alternate superblock is too 
> broken to use... after all, that is why you have backups.

You've obviously not faced the prospect of restoring a 1TB+ filesystem. :)

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