On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:40:31AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > But that system turns out to be harder to keep in sync. > > nope ... actually trivial
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ trivial -bash: trivial: command not found I must not have it installed. You didn't provide a pointer to trivial and it doesn't seem to be a Debian package. I'll try google. > > Or maybe mount the dirs instead. > > that assumes the other remote dirs or other disk on the machine > is working Yes. I guess that would mean that to be able to use the disk that it is indeed working. > > Then when there's a failure in master, power down master, and reboot > > the slave machine into "master" mode which then mounts that partition > > or partitions at /etc, /var, etc. > > all that should already work hands off ... without lifting a finger to > touch the keyboard > aka "high availability" > > > Thanks, but I was only looking for one or two. > > see HA You mean Linux-HA, as in http://www.linux-ha.org/? > if ha doesnt do what you want ... you're barking up the wrong tree Yes, I think I must be. > and making things 100x more complicated than it needs to be, as > the master/slave issues has long since been solved a gazillion > different ways ( and your methodology unfortunately has too many "holes" > that it will not work even if it was built as you say ) Good point. That helps. Thanks for the pointers. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]