Subject: Re: redundant disk support?
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/23/2001 21:50:19
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:18:56PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> Umm... no. Just make sure the other disks are bootable as well.
> (i.e. duplicate the non-mirrored 'stuff needed to boot' onto the 2nd disk.)
> I havn't tried this on sparc, but I have used dd to do it on i386, and it
> worked quite well. (mark the normal boot disk as failed, hot pull it out..
> reboot. watch the machine boot from the 2nd drive. hot add 1st drive,
> re-sync mirrors, continue happily.)
And in the latest version of sparc OFW, you can specify 2 boot devices.
If the first one fails, it'll try the second.
SO it should even boot without human intervention :)
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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