On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:39:59AM -0400, Buechler, Mark R wrote: > I was wondering if Linux RAID had anything like what EMC corporation calls a > BCV (Business Continuity Volume). A BCV is simply a second or third mirror > which is synced up with the main devices and then broken off and kept as a > backup. You can then at any point restore from the BCV mirror by doing a > reverse sync from it to the main devices. This is a very handy thing when it > comes to shared disk. You can sync a mirror on one system, break it and > mount it up on another to back it up and all without having to stop any > applications on the primary server or put any excessive load on it. > > I was wondering if there were plans for this sort of functionality or if > anyone has given it any thought. > It is supported. You can do this, as far as I see it, with raidhotadd, mkraid and raidhotremove/raidsetfaulty. We don't have the buzzword, and there's no nifty front-end for it, but the functionality is all there as far as I see. > - Mark. > > > EMAIL DISCLAIMER > > Please Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and > confidential, protected from disclosure, and/or intended only for the use of > the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not > the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering > this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > disclosure, distribution, copying or other dissemination of this > communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in > error, please immediately reply to the sender, delete the message and > destroy all copies of it. > Wow ;) > Thank You > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
