Realtime Filesystem Replication

Vince Hoffman Vince.Hoffman at uk.circle.com
Wed May 7 04:18:11 PDT 2003


> 
> > YOU wrote:
> > > Thanks so far to the suggestions including rsync and unison. Both
> > > appear to be triggered upon a command line or user typed 
> command. Is
> > > someone using a system that tracks the mtimes for files 
> and updates
> > > without prompt? 
> > 
> > Are you sure you really need _realtime_?  That's a pretty 
> tall order,
> > and I don't know of anything that can provide it.
> 
> Purely out of curiousity, would it even be technically 
> possible?  Would
> kevents be the thing to handle something like this, or would 
> they be too
> low-level?
> 
> -Chris
>
 
Would having the data on an NFS share mounted by all machines in the cluster
be too slow/not practical ?
(one copy so no need to replicate.)


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