Every now and then I think up some crazy master plan, last night was one of these times – sometimes they work out, sometimes they don’t so much.
I was reading the Linux kernel code for software RAID1 because I was totally bored, and something caught my eye – the ability to prefer to write to certain disks in the array (mdadm –write-mostly). I decided that I was going to find some use for it that was a bit outside the box.
After a little tweaking and configuring I came up with this Evil Plan: View full article »