Any specs, yet, on performance and reliability (of the mirror)? This is kind of a kick-butt idea.
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:13, Stephen Brown wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Oehser wrote: > > > Does anyone have a recommendation for IDE hotswap bays? > > > > What about getting the kernel to recognize the swaps? > > We are using Kensington's StoreCase bays for the drives, and the Linux > md raid modules to handle the mirror set administration. We haven't > automated anything yet -- all the critical volumes are mirrored, and we > intend to tell the md module to break the mirrorset, power down one of > the drives, pull it out and replace it with a blank one, then restore > the mirrorset (we currently use this technique to clone the system disk > when we bring up a new server, and it works well for that. We already > have a tape rotation for backups, but it's getting more expensive every > day.) > > Steve Brown > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Scot Harkins (KA5KDU) Systems Engineer Apropos Retail Management Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aproposretail.com
