Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:48:49 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem replication geom proposal Message-ID: <g48sfi$2ng$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20080622233638.4hclgmsw8408s4cg@www.hmallett.co.uk> References: <0A8C1986-1DC1-4445-9111-0DEDBBCC6847@hmallett.co.uk> <g3m3se$eau$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080622233638.4hclgmsw8408s4cg@www.hmallett.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] hywel@hmallett.co.uk wrote: > I certainly agree that there's no point in reinventing the wheel, > however I don't see how gmirror, without major changes, can work in a > way that can cope with a disconnected network and maintain data > consistency when the network is reconnected. Yes, gmirror would have to grow support for "smart" resilvering, probably by having a bitmap of changed blocks maintained on the working drive(s) so it can only update the changed data instead of whole drives (which would happen now if ggated would support automatic reconnects). [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIZ/UyldnAQVacBcgRAkzqAKC9UwGc941/6vhe9wMA33+Yl6xN5gCgqTkn iS+T2tuH9mxHIADflRONkdY= =MCtC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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