On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
>
> > A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions
> > can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emergency,
> > but you would not normally want to do this as your mirrors will get out
> > of sync.
>
> So if one disk fails I can take out the other disk and put in an other
> machine and mount the partitions? And everything should work?
>
Yes, you should be able to just swap out the failed disk. (I'm not sure
about RAID-1 boot partitions tho, I have'nt tried that).
Here's some more reading for you, answers most of the questions you've
come up with so far...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5653
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5898
hth,
Patrick.
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