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Re: Remote admin.
Meir Litmanovich wrote:
>
> > What I'm going to do is:
> > 1. have two copies of everything including root filesystem on two
> > seperate harddisks in case one of them fails, and boot diskettes. Is
> > there any way to make it automatically boot off the second drive if the
> > first one fails?
> No, until you have hardware raid there...
That's true regarding software-induced crashes. However, you can use
software raid to cope with hardware-related disk failures. Currently
you have software implementation of RAID levels 0,1,4 and 5 for Linux.
Combine that with a well configured Linux system and you have quite a
stable server.
Tuvik
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