From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 10:36:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6474E16A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:36:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aragon@geek.sh) Received: from mail.geek.sh (decoder.geek.sh [196.36.198.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA7E43D48 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:36:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aragon@geek.sh) Received: by mail.geek.sh (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 667C024D15; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:36:33 +0200 (SAST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:36:33 +0200 From: Aragon Gouveia To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060117103633.GA89290@phat.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 i386 Subject: gmirror using disk image files X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:36:44 -0000 Hi, I have a need to mirror data between two servers for failover purposes. I've been reading up on Ggate and Gmirror and I want to try them. From what I've gathered I will need a dedicated disk or disk slice in each server to be able to mirror them. Unfortunately this is an afterthought and these two machines are already sliced and partitioned without this scheme in mind. I would like to avoid rebuilding them or adding disks. Is it possible to have Ggated export a Vnode device from one machine, and from the other machine import this device with Ggatec and mirror it with another Vnode device running locally with Gmirror? Thanks, Aragon