On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:13:35PM -0400, Chris Brown wrote: > I'm looking to increase the reliability (fault tolerance) of a system > that's using IDE drives. > > Is there a way to add a second identical drive and have the the OS > mirror the data on the partitions? such that if one drive actually > crashed, the OS would keep running or at least be restarted with > little data loss?
Take a look at the mdutils package. You can do mirroring (RAID 1), but you'll have to re-partition your disks. I doubt it can continue to run during a hardware failure, though, and it's a pain in the butt to boot from a Linux md (RAID) device. Newer kernels offer RAID 5, which may be a better solution. I think you need three or more disks. Patches are probably available for 2.0.x kernels. For this, look at the raidtools package. Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
