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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Capriotti wrote:

> Does anyone have any news about System Fault Tolerance under Free ?
> 
> Like what Novell has, from mirrowed disks to mirrowed servers ?

  Mirrored disks can be done with ccd.

  Mirrored servers are basically what Unix types call a cluster.  On
Novell this is easy, because Novell boxes are basically just file servers,
but a Unix box could be doing many different things.  Migrating tasks
from the failed system to the working system, and assumption
of the IP traffic, is difficult.

Tom