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Mirroring a running system into ramdisk

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William Roche
Nov 5, 2019

There are cases where a system can boot correctly but after some time, can lose its system disk access – for example an iSCSI system disk configuration that has network issues, or any other disk driver problem. Once the system disk is no longer accessible, we rapidly face a hang situation followed by I/O failures, without the possibility of local investigation on this machine. The approach presented here allows a small system disk space to be mirrored in memory to avoid the above I/O failures situation, which provides the ability to investigate the reasons for the disk loss. The system disk loss will be noticed as an I/O hang, at which point there will be a transition to use only the ram-disk.

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William Roche

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