On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Mark Hernandez wrote:
> Ok since my server has two 9.1 SCSI disk, and only one is enough for the DNS
> and MTA(since its jst a relay) servr.
> Is there a way that i cud mirror the second disk, for backup like if (if
> ever) the first one should crash, the second one
> would automatically carry the burden of the first one.
>
try software raid (mirroring / raid1) . I can't help you much with the
details (i haven't done it yet) although you could refer to the
Software-RAID-HOWTO .
there is a slight performance hit also due to the fact that it have to
perform disk functions (like write) on two disks . And the raid functions
are done by software so it eats up (albeit little) CPU time.
hth
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