[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvin Oga) writes:
> for larger systems/clusters:
> what about the linux High Availability project ?
> and/or the beowolf project ?
No Linux project I know of can yet provide generic failsafe clustering.
> > If you're referring to boot possibilities when the first drive goes
> > down, it is somewhat of an unsolved issue with software RAID, since
> > LILO knows nothing about RAID configurations, and the BIOS even less.
> you can use a root-raid drive to solve that ?? ( sorta ? )
> if one disk goes down, you can still boot before resorting to floppy
Software RAID can not solve it because the software isn't running at
the time the boot sector needs to be accessed. Hardware RAID does, as
long as it has a BIOS driver.
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Osma Ahvenlampi
