Re: redundancy and disk i/o

At 07:30 PM 11/28/00 -0800, Sandeep Joshi wrote:
>Hi,
> I have two questions
>
>1. Is it possible to set up a set of redundant disks for a database? one
>of them being remote from the database?

If you're talking about replication, PostgreSQL, Inc. will be offering a
solution to its $19,000/yr Platinum Partners shortly. It will be released
in open source form no more than two years after its release in proprietary
form.

Check out http://www.erserver.com for more details, and http://www.pgsql.com
for more details on the PostgreSQL, Inc. partnership program.

Locally, you can use RAID. Are there open-source journaling filesystems that
offer filesystem-level replication out there?

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