This tutorial focuses on the disk setup and boot process. You should be familiar with a standard archlinux installation to follow along. However, I also added some general things that the archlinux installation guide fails to adress.
There is a lot of confusion about btrfs and its RAID features. Let's start from the basics:
mdadm is a software implementation found in the linux kernel
Yes, you should use SSDs (and HDDs) for backups.
You should have at least 3 copies of your data. One of them is the master copy, with which you work from your computer. The other two are backups, which should be in 2 different locations, and use two different storage types. The easiest solution would be to use one external HDD and one external SSD. Also, use btrfs (for reasons explained below).
| import atexit | |
| import sys | |
| import os | |
| import time | |
| import readline | |
| import inspect | |
| import pyperclip | |
| import math | |
| import cmath |
| " How to save and quit vim intuitively | |
| " C-s -> save | |
| " ZZ -> save then close buffer: | |
| " - if last buffer, also quit vim. | |
| " - if more then one window open, close the window | |
| " :q -> close buffer: | |
| " - if not saved will error. | |
| " - if last buffer, also quit vim. | |
| " - if more then one window open, close the window | |
| " :qa! -> quit vim, no matter what |
People who design languages can't resist the temptation of doing clever stuff. The result if that we still are having to deal with C problems that could have been solved years ago. Until this is done, we are stuck with this language.