Re: Disk Mirroring...

[Mark Bishop <mark@tct-net.org>]

I really don't offer a 'real' answer but what you are refering to is RAID
1(?) support I believe and the best place to look would be to look at the
RAID-HOWTO/FAQ  I hope thius helps.

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Koree A. Smith wrote:

> 
> Is there any support in the current kernel for such a beast?  One of our
> customers just recently had us install disk mirroring on SCO Openserver 5.0.4
> (probably more appropriate to call it disk duplexing), in which there are two
> UW SCSI-3 controllers, each with it's own Seagate Cheetah.  Data is written to
> both disks so you have an exact copy on both disks.  If one disk or controller
> dies, downtime is minimal.  It sounds like a good idea to me.  Just curious if
> Linux supports it, and if not, I wonder if that'd be a good venture for me to
> jump into the Linux Kernel devel :D
> 
> Koree
> 
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