GEOM Gate.

[Dan Pelleg]

Danny Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> writes:

> > From: Richard Tobin [mailto:richard at 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?

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  Dan Pelleg