Hello all,

I would like to set up a High Availability Linux Server running Redhat
6.2, LVS, heartbeat etc. This machine will provide Highly Available file
storage and print services to my network of both UNIX and NT clients. The
filesystem that I want to export from the server will need to be RAID 0+1
i.e. a mirrored stripe.

My first question is: "What software do I need to use to create my RAID 0+1
mirrored stripe of disks?" Also, is it possible to make it a journalled
filesystem - hence will avoiding an fsck of a huge partition and improving
data integrity.

My second question is: "How can I share the above RAID device between two
hosts simultaneously?" My assumption is that it is possible to set the scsi
initiator to a different value for the two machines. I presume then that you
can connect the disk pack to both hosts. It is then just a case of
unmounting the disks from the primary host when it fails and then
re-mounting them on the backup host.

Thanks in advance for any help


Gary Mansell
Senior Technical Analyst
IT Department
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