From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 21:19: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D8ED15437 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:18:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 21132 invoked from network); 24 Mar 1999 05:18:37 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 24 Mar 1999 05:18:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:18:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: Greg Lehey Cc: Brad Lisoweski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19990324151258.Y425@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Uh, vinum volumes can't be used for the root yet can they? On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 23 March 1999 at 23:14:01 -0500, Brad Lisoweski wrote: > > > > Hello Once Again, > > > > I've got a client who is serious about keeping his server up 24x7 and wants > > to mirror his hard drive onto another separate hard drive on a separate > > controller. So basically on the primary IDE channel, the production drive > > will sit and on the secondary IDE channel, the backup mirror will live. > > > > Is there an easy way to accomplish this? > > Yes. > > > If it could also cut over automatically in the case of a drive > > failure, that would be best. > > Use Vinum. It doesn't "cut over", it uses whatever disks are > available. If both drives are available, it uses both to increase > performance; if one fails, it just carries on with the other. Take a > look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message