April 18, 2016
7:49 p.m.
On 4/18/16 12:48 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:47:55 -0400, "Robert P. J. Day" said:
i figure this is as good a place as any to ask ... is anyone here aware of anyone using a linux config and install that, for the purposes of reliability or high availability or whatever you want to call it, relies on a second, completely independent installation of linux on the same hard drive? <snip>
Most implementations of "high availability" would see the phrase "on the same hard drive" and start pointing and laughing at the single point of failure.
Yup. That was my reaction. HA starts with either 2 servers and either a) mirrored drives (e.g., using DRBD) or b) a HA RAID cluster. Miles Fidelman