Date: 15 Oct 2003 09:00:51 -0400 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM Gate. Message-ID: <u2s65iqodto.fsf@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E1A9fmh-0005dv-Oo@cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1A9fmh-0005dv-Oo@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> writes: > > From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk] > > > > Ok, GEOM Gate is ready for testing. > > > > For those who don't know what it is, they can read README: > > > > > > Aaargh! It's the return of nd(4) from SunOS. > > > > Excuse me? > > > > # uname -a > > SunOS galaxy 4.1.4 18 sun4m > > # man nd > > No manual entry for nd. > > # > /history > back in the days when the internet was LAN, SUN invented 'The Network is the > Computer', YP for yellow pages (now NIS), and ND for Network Disk (A RPITA). > but disks where expensive so it was rather neat, ND was replaced by NFS, but > NIS is is still around :-). > history/ > > danny > PS: as some like to say, nothing new under the sun Correct me if I'm wrong. But doesn't the fact this is a GEOM device mean one can keep a live mirror (or generally RAID) on a remote drive? -- Dan Pelleg
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