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...systems. We - as most other distributions too - are running in the problem that even minimalistc kernels are slowly growing and sometimes don't fit on 1.44 MB floppies anymore. 2.5.x kernels with initramfs are even bigger than 2.88 MB in some cases... Until now it always has been possible to shrik a kernel down to 1.44 MB and also shrink the initrd image do a size which fits on one single disk. But I'm afraid that will not be possible anymore with linux 2.6. A possible solution would be to teach the boot loader how to load a kernel image which is splitted over multiple disks. Something...

We have a CentOS 3 server with about 300GB of data on an ext2 filesystem that we need to mirror onto a new drive, which we're then going to pull out and put into a second server. A straight disk-to-disk copy (with rsync, tar, or "cp -a" doesn't much matter) manages about 75MB per minute, which would take almost three days, and the system gets very sluggish while such a copy is