> I discovered an interesting book recently, by Aian Campbell. I'd never heard > of him, and Google hasn't either. > > The book is "Reliable Linux." I already knoew that Linux does drive mirroring. > I discovered the disk drives can be on opposite sides of the world if you like, > so long as you have the network capacity. > > Doubtless Alan C already knows this, but I didn't and I suppose a few others > don't either.
Its one of the things DRBD lets you do. Or iSCSI of course. RAID5 with no complete copy of the data in any pair of co-operating legal jurisdictions would appear to be an interesting application for this 8) Alan
