From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 13:57:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF3916A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:57:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F4843D45 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:57:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8132E114A1; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:57:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15784-10; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:57:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from mayday.esat.net (mayday.esat.net [193.95.134.156]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4C411492; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:57:10 +0100 (CET) From: Florent Thoumie To: ticso@cicely.de In-Reply-To: <20060307134339.GE676@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <2833016.1141737440654.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net> <20060307134339.GE676@cicely12.cicely.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:56:58 +0000 Message-Id: <1141739818.17213.1.camel@mayday.esat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, babkin@users.sourceforge.net, Ashley Moran Subject: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:57:26 -0000 On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 14:43 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:17:20AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > >From: Ashley Moran > > > > >I just saw this slashdotted article: > > >http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html > > > > > >Just to satisfy my curiosity, is it the sort of thing that can be implemented > > >as a GEOM layer? The idea is bloody clever but sounds like a bit of a hack > > >right now. > > > > Well, I've been running around with this kind of idea for > > around 10 years now. Never actually implemented it though. > > I can't quite believe that encryption at full disk speeds > > makes no noticeable CPU overhead. > > This sounds as nothing more than a mirror with one disk beeing a remote > file. > And this is not really a new idea - remote mirror has a long standing > tradition. > You can already configure these things with GEOM right now. That's geom_gate (for the record). -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer