From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 21:14:43 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 509C416A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:14:43 +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 C969443D46 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:14:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aragon@geek.sh) Received: by mail.geek.sh (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A6FA524D17; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:14:41 +0200 (SAST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:14:41 +0200 From: Aragon Gouveia To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060117211441.GB12650@phat.za.net> References: <20060117103633.GA89290@phat.za.net> <43CD5505.2040705@fer.hr> <20060117211155.GA12650@phat.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060117211155.GA12650@phat.za.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 i386 Subject: Re: 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 21:14:43 -0000 | By Aragon Gouveia | [ 2006-01-17 23:12 +0200 ] > | By Ivan Voras > | [ 2006-01-17 22:35 +0200 ] > > You can do use mdconfig(8) to do anything geom-related with files, > > including mirroring them over the network. BUT, you can't mount the > > mirrored file system at the same time on both machines except if both > > mounts are read-only. > > > > Combinations such as: > > > > - mirrored devices/file systems mounted read-write on both machines > > - mounted read-write on one machine and read-only on the other(s) > > Cool! I was planning on implementing the second one. Erm, uncool I mean. :)