gmirror using disk image files

Aragon Gouveia aragon at phat.za.net
Tue Jan 17 13:14:43 PST 2006


| By Aragon Gouveia <aragon at phat.za.net>
|                                          [ 2006-01-17 23:12 +0200 ]
> | By Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr>
> |                                          [ 2006-01-17 22:35 +0200 ]
> > You can do use mdconfig(8) to do anything geom-related with files, 
> > including mirroring them over the network. BUT, you can't mount the 
> > mirrored file system at the same time on both machines except if both 
> > mounts are read-only.
> > 
> > Combinations such as:
> > 
> > - mirrored devices/file systems mounted read-write on both machines
> > - mounted read-write on one machine and read-only on the other(s)
> 
> Cool!  I was planning on implementing the second one.

Erm, uncool I mean. :)



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