Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM, PJ <af.gour...@videotron.ca
> <mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca>> wrote:
>
> Adam Vande More wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 AM, PJ <af.gour...@videotron.ca
> <mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca>
> > <mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca
> <mailto:af.gour...@videotron.ca>>> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, this is true and that is why I thought that glabel would
> > work; I am
> > trying to set up my computers with identical clones that I
> can update
> > with changes on the master machine from time to time and
> thus prevent
> > data loss in case of problems. So I use ad12 as the main
> system; if it
> > were to crash I would then boot from ad6 which is identical.
> But the
> > /etc/fstab is identical in both machines. So if I boot from
> ad6, I
> > will
> > get booted from ad12 ... so that doesn't work. It looks like we
> > need an
> > unique identifier for each disk.
> >
> >
> > Why not use gmirror?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Adam Vande More
> because I am not using RAID. :-(
>
>
> gmirror + ggated = disk or slice replicated to remote system
>
> --
> Adam Vande More
You ae trying to give me a migraine. :-)
But what happens if the disks are not identical in size? Dump/restore
allows for that; dump/restore will copy only the used date and not the
entire partition or slice.
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