On Thursday 14 June 2001 02:26, Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
I have two hard disks:-
ata1 - master = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hda) ata2 - slave = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hdb)
Any ideas how I can software mirror these and use ReiserFS as a disk format? SuSE has to be bootable off either of the disks *and* if one drive blows up, I need to be able to swap it out with another one and rebuild the mirror pretty quickish. I dont need to hot-swap - powering down is fine.
Can someone give us an idea where to start please!
Since I am lazy, I would just rsync them, after first partitioning the second drive of course. Then a crontab `rsync -a --delete /a /b` --for each partition--, as often as you wish, with a low priority nice value maybe, if needed. Switch drives and reboot. There are probably better ways ...
Cheers,
- Chris.