network raid possible?

[Sean Murphy]

Hi

Use rsync,  it is design to keep files correctly updated over a network.  It
is indepentent of file system on the linux box.  You hav eto us rsync on
both ends.

Chow
Sean
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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: network raid possible?


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> Hmm. Well in that case I'd need some way to constantly keep a series of
> filesystems synched with each other...Possibly using rsync might work,
> as long as every server I wanted to synchronize had an initial copy.
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:32:51PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
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> > If network raid is possible it would be extremely slow especially over
> > the internet if that's what you're planning on. the ideal way to do it
> > would be something like gigabit ethernet lan but that kit is
> > expensive.
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:57:23PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> > > Hi all. I'm going to need this type of functionality sometime in he
> > > future. And I can't use NFS, because its too centralized. Does anyone
> > > know if its currently possible to add network filesystems to a RAID?
> > > Because if so, what I'd like to implement is a system where all the
> > > networked filesystems are synchronized to each other. So in other
words,
> > > any changes made from my machines here gets proppogated to the rest of
> > > them since they're all seen as 1 disk. And I'd also have to make it so
> > > Bind returns A records in random order for propper load balancing.
> > > Speaking of Bind, I posted this a while back but never got any
replies.
> > > Is rrset-order supported in Bind-9.2.3RC4? Thanks!
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