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A glitch in the 3.12 merge window

A glitch in the 3.12 merge window

Posted Sep 11, 2013 6:49 UTC (Wed) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539)
Parent article: A glitch in the 3.12 merge window

Would a RAID of SSDs (or SSD/HDD) have helped?


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A glitch in the 3.12 merge window

Posted Sep 11, 2013 7:22 UTC (Wed) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link]

I think Linus uses a MacbookAir and Pixel so no RAID.

A glitch in the 3.12 merge window

Posted Sep 11, 2013 7:24 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

It was asked, and Linus responded that he doesn't bother with backups as such on his machines. He keeps all the important things on multiple machines (plus critical things like SSH keys on offline media)

The problem here isn't really the loss of the disk, it's the timing of it (just as he's about to travel) and the fact that there may be some merge requests that people will have to re-send

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