On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:01:49PM +1000, anubis wrote:
> Linux has a thing called drbd which is a block device that allows the
> duplication of data across a network. The system writes to the local disk
> first then the remote disk keeping them in sync.
>
> Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD or is there one planned or is there another
> way of going about things that gives similar results.
GEOM Gate by Pawel Dawidek is what you want. I don't think it's in
the tree yet, but patches are available.
See:
http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-hackers_2003/msg04335.html
http://garage.freebsd.pl/geom_gate.tbz
Note that this is experimental code so don't entrust anything valuable
to it.
Cheers,
Matthew
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