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<title>High Availability and Load Balancing</title>

disk array fails or becomes corrupt, the primary and standby

servers are both nonfunctional. Another issue is that the

standby server should never access the shared storage while

the primary server is running.

the primary server is running. It is also possible to use

some type of file system mirroring to keep the standby server

current, but the mirroring must be done in a way that the

standby server has a consistent copy of the file system.

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