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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:13:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com>
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To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: Clustering/fail-over capability?
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> Mirroring disks is pretty easy to do, the built-in disk striping driver
> (ccd) does this already.  But the rest is pretty tricky.

But in this case you'd really want to be mirroring the disks across servers,
not within the same server. ccd can't do that.

I believe that 'clustering' is going to become a more important topic in
the near future. Having fail over and load balanced servers is desired for
larger 'mission critical' applications.


							-Steve