On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:40:31AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > But that system turns out to be harder to keep in sync.
>
> nope ... actually trivial
moseley@bumby:~$ trivial
-bash: trivial: command not found
I must not have it installed. You didn't provide a pointer to trivial
and it doesn't seem to be a Debian package. I'll try google.
> > Or maybe mount the dirs instead.
>
> that assumes the other remote dirs or other disk on the machine
> is working
Yes. I guess that would mean that to be able to use the disk that it
is indeed working.
> > Then when there's a failure in master, power down master, and reboot
> > the slave machine into "master" mode which then mounts that partition
> > or partitions at /etc, /var, etc.
>
> all that should already work hands off ... without lifting a finger to
> touch the keyboard
> aka "high availability"
>
> > Thanks, but I was only looking for one or two.
>
> see HA
You mean Linux-HA, as in http://www.linux-ha.org/?
> if ha doesnt do what you want ... you're barking up the wrong tree
Yes, I think I must be.
> and making things 100x more complicated than it needs to be, as
> the master/slave issues has long since been solved a gazillion
> different ways ( and your methodology unfortunately has too many "holes"
> that it will not work even if it was built as you say )
Good point. That helps. Thanks for the pointers.
--
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org