Re: Disk Mirroring...

["Koree A. Smith" <koree@accessus.net>]

I thought it was RAID, but that document didn't seem to be describing
*exactly* what I assume this other setup to be.  I'll look it over again.  I
didn't read it that thouroughly.

Koree

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Mark Bishop wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 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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