Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:29:01 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> To: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high availability disk mirror Message-ID: <200210062229.01957.stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <200210062036.g96Kadd20140@splat.grant.org> References: <200210062036.g96Kadd20140@splat.grant.org>
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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
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