From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 00:46:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA27267 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA27262 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA10621; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:46:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:46:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Frank Laczko Jr." cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question In-Reply-To: <199710082247.PAA09379@in4.doitnow.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Frank Laczko Jr. wrote: > Is there a way to make FreeBSD 2.2.2 mirror data between 2 independant > servers? So that as data is written or deleted from one disk, on one > server, it is also written or deleted from another disk on a physically > different server? At the same moment? Normally, you would have the data stored on one host and NFS mount it on the other half. Unfortunately, the other half will be slower unless you have a really good network link. There are hardware solutions for this (attaching a SCSI disk array to two separate hosts) but they aren't cheap or easy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major