Re: Plans for hot-adding and removing mirrors?

[Luca Berra]

On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 01:24:39PM -0500, Jorj Bauer wrote:
> useful. On a busy mail machine, it's difficult to get a static backup of
> the contents of /var/spool/mail. If the raid tools supported the ability
> to add and remove mirrors on the fly, one could have a redundant (third)
> mirror which is detached nightly, mounted as a standalone filesystem
> elsewhere, backed up, unmounted, and reattached to the /var/spool/mail
> mirror. 

this should be a work for a journaled filesystem, where you can
freeze the log, backup, unfreeze like vxfs (Veritas) does

i theink someone was writing a jfs for linux called dtfs

L.
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