> Too bad there's nothing like the Veritas Volume manager for Linux. You can > do all sorts of RAID reconfiguations, all with the system still up and > processing data. We have 2 Sun A5100 fiber channel storage arrays with 14 > disks each, and I was reconfiguring them a whole bunch of different ways to > figure out what had the best performance. The whole time, the database on > it was still up and processing data, although slowly sometimes. take a look at the Logical Volume Manager for Linux http://linux.msede.com/lvm/ Heinz Mauelshagen was here in MN, giving a presentation at the U, earlier this year. Very interesting stuff; tho I admit most of it flew way over my head at the time. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org