From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 19:29:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DED337B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.ufl.edu (sp16en1.nerdc.ufl.edu [128.227.74.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDEC43E3B for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu) Received: from bobj.dyndns.org (cpe-gan-68-101-90-216-cmcpe.ncf.coxexpress.com [68.101.90.216]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.ufl.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/2.4.0) with ESMTP id g972TIsw157990 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:29:19 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Johnson To: Michael Grant , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high availability disk mirror Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:29:01 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200210062036.g96Kadd20140@splat.grant.org> In-Reply-To: <200210062036.g96Kadd20140@splat.grant.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210062229.01957.stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> X-Scanned-By: NERDC Open Systems Group (http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/virus-scan/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 06 October 2002 04:36 pm, Michael Grant appears to have=20 written: > Anyone have any good pointers to ideas how to set up multiple freebsd > boxes such that I end up with something that's fault tolerant and > highly available? > > Anyone know of a way to mirror a disk across a network? > There are several more conventional methods, but you might also want=20 to take a look at the Coda filesystem: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ I've played with it a little and it's pretty neat, although I've never=20 done anything serious with it. It's in the ports collection.=20 > My current thinking is to create a second box as a hot spare. I don't think Coda can mirror an entire system, but if you want=20 real-time mirroring of the data directories, it might be just what=20 you need. > > Michael Grant - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message