Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:23:10 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network Message-ID: <200603080723.11368.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <86ek1eia73.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200603071255.10729.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> <86ek1eia73.fsf@xps.des.no>
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Le Tuesday 7 March 2006 15:46, Dag-Erling Smørgrav a écrit : > Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> writes: > > I just saw this slashdotted article: > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html > > > > Just to satisfy my curiosity, is it the sort of thing that can be > > implemented as a GEOM layer? The idea is bloody clever but sounds > > like a bit of a hack right now. It's just bad that the FreeBSD champion is (was ?) Yahoo and not Google, as Google seems to be soon offering a large online storage (see http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-03-07T080717Z_01_N07296137_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-GOOGLE-STORAGE.XML) An enterprising hacker could create a new geom class to build a mirror with the local disk and the new google remote disk. TfH
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