NetBSD disk backup over network

Sergey Babkin babkin at verizon.net
Tue Mar 7 13:17:21 UTC 2006


>From: Ashley Moran <work at ashleymoran.me.uk>

>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.

Well, I've been running around with this kind of idea for
around 10 years now. Never actually implemented it though.
I can't quite believe that encryption at full disk speeds
makes no noticeable CPU overhead.

-SB


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