-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 November 2003 11:15, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hi > > I'm wondering if Logical Volume Manager can handle a setup I am > considering. > I have a system with two 40 GB IDE drives. > hda > / > /boot > <swap> > /tmp > /data (includes home) > /usr > > The second disk (hdb) should contain the same partitions, but mirrored. > > The ultimate goal would be that if either hda or hdb failed, the system > would keep running until I could replace a disk. > > Is any of this possible with LVM? Is it stable? > Could the system still boot if one disk failed (e.g. hdb)?
As Peter mentioned, it's not likely to. But what you really want is RAID. It will handle the reconstruction of the mirror if one failed. > Can I disable the mirrors temporary when performing an upgrade? (to get > the chance to turn it back). > I've seen this stuff done with Veritas, and I'd be cool to have it on a > Free Linux box. What do you mean by 'upgrade', swapping out a disk for a bigger one? I suppose just removing the old disk would disable it, and putting a new one in would restart it. Have no idea how it would handle any change in size though. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tQWXInuLMrk7bIwRAjMUAJ4rmyELqy2qPkoFjHGXR7HRGDI8ygCdEnxC jr0Z2cbdgNmvdWg3LMR7Vt4= =MS6u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
