Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:27:37 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lazy mirror / live backup Message-ID: <20070420202737.GA92793@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <20070420133854.G45782@nux.eros.office> References: <20070420133854.G45782@nux.eros.office>
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According to Mike Wolman: > I'd like the ability to have gmirror do a more efficient re-silvering (or > re-syncing) of the mirror members when a planned disconnect occurs. This > would significantly reduce the mirror rebuild time for any component which > had been deactivated, for network mirrors using ggated devices this would > also reduce network usage and could be used for remote asynced mirrors > thus providing a live backup for laptops/workstations. Do you see that you are describing ZFS there? Considering the status of ZFS right now, I think it is not worth really trying to implement such scheme in gmirror. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Darwin sidhe.keltia.net Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006 i386
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