From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 5 02:46:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD2416A4CE for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 02:46:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572F643D41 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 02:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i852k2Bm077627; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:46:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:46:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20040905024601.GB44261@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040904222712.F812@ganymede.hub.org> <20040905015820.GA44261@dan.emsphone.com> <20040904232130.O812@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040904232130.O812@ganymede.hub.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File system replication between servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:46:03 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 04), Marc G. Fournier said: > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > You could even do it without shared storage if you use geom_gate > > and geom_{mirror,vinum,ccd} to keep two identical disks on each > > machine in sync. When the master crashes and comes back up as a > > slave, the mirror code will update its disks. > > what is geom_gate? checked 'man geom_gate' on my 5.x machine, and > nothing shows up ... The geom layer is not very well-documented, but geom_gate's manpages are at ggatec, ggated, and ggatel. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com