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Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?
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Mel wrote:

> I think once you and R1soft step out of the "I need a block level device" 
> paradigm, you will see that modifying ggate with a "copy and fall through" 
> mode, as well as a mechanism to block writes to the local provider, when the 
> remote provider wants to write is the best solution all around and your best 
> bet to get support for it.
> Right now, ggate does "intercept and redirect", but the concept of copy and 
> fall through is not that far away. Bringing the R1soft devs in contact with 
> the FreeBSD geom list and having them browse the sys/geom/ggate sources to 
> see how trivial it is to hook into filesystem operations would be the course 
> of action I'd recommend.
> 

Would it be too much to ask if you can send this information to R1Soft and refer 
to the post I linked? I just dont think that I can be an efficient gateway of 
information here :)

Thanks,
Evren